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Linux Device Driver Development - Second Edition

You're reading from  Linux Device Driver Development - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240060
Pages 708 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
John Madieu John Madieu
Profile icon John Madieu

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1 -Linux Kernel Development Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Kernel Development 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Linux Kernel Module Basic Concepts 4. Chapter 3: Dealing with Kernel Core Helpers 5. Chapter 4: Writing Character Device Drivers 6. Section 2 - Linux Kernel Platform Abstraction and Device Drivers
7. Chapter 5: Understanding and Leveraging the Device Tree 8. Chapter 6: Introduction to Devices, Drivers, and Platform Abstraction 9. Chapter 7: Understanding the Concept of Platform Devices and Drivers 10. Chapter 8: Writing I2C Device Drivers 11. Chapter 9: Writing SPI Device Drivers 12. Section 3 - Making the Most out of Your Hardware
13. Chapter 10: Understanding the Linux Kernel Memory Allocation 14. Chapter 11: Implementing Direct Memory Access (DMA) Support 15. Chapter 12: Abstracting Memory Access – Introduction to the Regmap API: a Register Map Abstraction 16. Chapter 13: Demystifying the Kernel IRQ Framework 17. Chapter 14: Introduction to the Linux Device Model 18. Section 4 - Misc Kernel Subsystems for the Embedded World
19. Chapter 15: Digging into the IIO Framework 20. Chapter 16: Getting the Most Out of the Pin Controller and GPIO Subsystems 21. Chapter 17: Leveraging the Linux Kernel Input Subsystem 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Regmap-based SPI driver example – putting it all together

All the steps involved in setting up Regmap, from configuration to device register access, can be enumerated as follows:

  • Setting up a struct regmap_config object according to the device characteristics. Defining the register range if needed, default values if any, cache_type if needed, and so on. If custom read/write functions are needed, pass them to the reg_read/reg_write fields.
  • In the probe function, allocating a register map using devm_regmap_init_i2c(), devm_regmap_init_spi(), or devm_regmap_init_mmio() depending on the connection with the underlying device – I2C, SPI, or memory-mapped.
  • Whenever you need to read/write from/into registers, calling remap_[read|write] functions.
  • When done with the register map, assuming you used resource-managed APIs, you have nothing else to do as devres core will take care of releasing the Regmap resources; otherwise, you'll have to call regmap_exit...
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