I have written interrupt handlers for a keyboard as well as the serial port RS232.
I have seen the book written by O'Reilly w.r.t the device drivers.
I wanted to know *exactly* what parts of Linux kernel should i understand well for having a crystal clear view of writing any kind of device driver ?
I have been reading some books about device driver development etc.I made a char driver of bond (dummy) device. My book says that PCI devices contain three addressable regions,configuration space,IO ports,and device memory,the book talks about a file include/linux/pci_ids.h and PCI addressing etc.I read about following functions
1) pci_read_config_
2) pci_write_config_ some thing known as offset is defined to be passed on as an argument to above functions
3) IRQ number assigned to a card function pci_read_config_byte_,configuration register offsets
4) pci_request_region I want to write a pci driver for my own understanding and I am reading some books about it.
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I am final year MCA student. I like to do my project in Linux. I know a little in C. I am pursuing RHCE certification. I am using rhel5. I am interested to write linux device drivers and willing to do my project in that.
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I'm trying to open ttySx from an interrupt.the kernel crashes. is it possible to open/write to serial port from interrupts ? I think it crushes because when I try to open the device there is a mutex lock which cause the kernel to crash , am I right
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Then it creates two UDP different channels and transmits UDP packets (in every 20 milliseconds) to destination IP address (i.e., 10.17.17.44) with source port 10000, destination port 20000 in one channel and source port 10002, destination port 20000 in another channel. When I configure to pass ?loadvalue=500? and run the module, I get the below kernel panic message in system log file (i.e., var/log/messages) 0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing. Running the same linux kernel module ,in 1000 loadvalue, I get this message, eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 49937 vs. 49954 in text console. I am unable to catch the root cause of these problems and how will I solve these?
What is the realmode interrupt return on the stack. Is it pop AX pop CS or vice versa?
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For my workflow in the test phase, how I could do that with the MMB-Buffer, followed by the modified script command:
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script runs
script runs
Signal interrupt and rerun with MMB trigger:
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modified script runs
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does not work and 2 hours meta-crawlers
I am doing some Linux kernel programming for my research project. I need to record the timestamp (by using cpuid and rdtsc) when an interrupt handler (top half) is first invoked. Due to the time critical nature of the problem itself, I have to do the timestamping inside the interrupt handler itself (the first operation when the handler is called). However, I understand that tasks that are not so time critical should be deferred to a tasklet function (bottom half) for processing because other interrupts are disabled in a (top-half) interrupt handler. I am currently out of idea on how I can pass the timestamp information that I have obtained in the interrupt handler to the corresponding tasklet function.
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There would be a lot of data to be transferred both on the server and back to the client. I already have a simple server here but the server uses a lot of resources. Maybe 3 to 4 connections and the server's load would rise to unacceptable levels.
Which do you think is better to use fork or select?
I want to write some PHP for a website that'll have the data that the script will generate written inside a table with thin black line around it, much like LQ itself. My problem is: how do I draw the box that the text will be inside of, since the amount of text will vary - if I have a GIF with a picture of a box, that'll be of a fixed length, and my script can then only generate that much text, for it to look nice. Or do I need to fiddle with the GD library to get done what I want?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo basically, there is a really cool writing system I have been working on. It could be viewed (for simplification purposes) like an encryption method for the Latin script.
Facts about the writing system:
It has a little over 300 symbols.
It is syllable-driven.
It is highly compositional (eg. "c", "ca", "cae", "ca " and "ci." all map to different symbols - and NOT by overlaying elements)
Symbols have medium graphical complexity (comparable to Korean Hangul, or Japanese Hiragana)
Has a rather complex set of diacritics (~10, some of which can go on any symbol)
Has no ligatures
How transliteration occurs:
Sequences of Latin symbols map to certain symbols. Example below:[G][rou][p ][hu][g.]Characters sequences between "[" and "]" map to a single symbol (so it would take only 5 symbols to write "Group hug.").
How I want it to work:
I would like to have a daemon that: Intercepts all text displayed on the screen.
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Leaves unsupported symbols unchanged.
Displays all the text on the screen using my font and characters intertwined with the fonts and characters left unchanged.
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I have written a daemon server. I would like to add the ability for the daemon to update itself. That is, it should be able to download the latest version of the code (when it receives a signal from a client) and then restart itself. I am stuck on getting the daemon to restart itself. The problem is killing the old daemon without killing the process that is starting the new daemon. In my latest attempt, the daemon that is updating itself runs a program in a subshell (using system) that starts a restarter daemon that runs the original daemon (again using system) with the restart command option. With the restart option, the new version of the daemon sends a terminate signal to the old version. Obviously, when I run the original daemon manually with the restart option, it restarts reliably. I figured that issuing the same restart command from a daemon would adequately isolate the process doing the restarting from the program being restarted. Using ps, I can see that the daemon does actually restart. However, the client locks. In fact, a few times, the OS locked and I had to reset.
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I'm not able to write to a file using my perl cgi script which is as fallows:
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I am trying to write .pgm images using the O_DIRECT flag in open().I have a char* buffer which has the image data. I know that I have to align the buffers and have done that using posix_memalign() yet only a part of the image gets written.Has someone used O_DIRECT for writing files successfully?
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serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0c: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
usb 2-2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
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I have assignment to write bash script and I have to submit it after tommorow . I do not have experience to finish it by myself.I am really need help if any one can contact me. on my email I will be thanks him/ her.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI would like to write a program that can read every ethernet frame arriving on a specific hardware NIC, without a TCP/IP stack otherwise doing anything on that NIC. Likewise I want to be able to write out to that NIC. So every arriving ethernet frame, of all types, would be readable (probably one at a time to preserve frame boundaries). And every write of exactly that same data would send frames out. The data read and written would be the whole ethernet frame. The kernel would do nothing else with this data, but other NICs would still operate as usual.
What I would be doing is that on 2 separate NICs, copying frames from one to the other, as in bridging. But I would also be doing modifications per what my program needs to do (not at liberty to say what that would be). What facility would I need to be looking at to do this? There is no ethernet device file. Would raw sockets be able to do this? The programming language will be C.
I created a small C++ program which starts a server in a separate thread and waits the user to press q using the standard input/output. Something like:
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printf(...);
server->Start();
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I am trying to learn how to write a kernel module. I am following the excellent guide from The Linux Documentation Project called The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide v.2.6.4.
My machine is running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)
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I installed the corresponding linux headers and just to make sure I also installed the linux source and extracted it in /usr/src
I am trying to run the following trivial kernel module
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I just want to read and write some values (integer) to my driver. I used put/get user but always getting errors.
driver
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int Wert;
static int device_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsinged long arg)
int ret;
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int WERT
ret=ioctl(fd, SETIT, WERT)
ret=ioctl(fd, GETIT, WERT)
if i say in C++ WERT is 5 the value arg of the driver becomes 5 but not WERT the returnvalue of get and put user is -1 so it failed.
I'm currently doing a tutorial for writing kernel modules. Right now I'm still at the very beginning, i.e. writing my helloworld stuff.
But what I like to do now is to write stuff onto the console, and I don't get it. According to my tutorials I can print stuff on the console using the printk()-function as long as the priority-level of the macro used in printk() is lower than the console_loglevel (how can I find that value out btw?).
But it doesn't work for me. Even if I use KERN_EMERG it still gets only logged, but not printed on the console and I thought KERN_EMERG get always printed...
Here's my code:
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Everything works fine. But as soon as there are any blanks in mystring, e.g.
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I always get
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Why do I get this error and how can I insert string with blanks?
I want to write data to serial port ( ttyS ) from inside the kernel.
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