comp 3438一部分-讲座404 unix intro dd介绍.pptx

COMP3438–PartI-Lecture4

IntroductiontoDeviceDriversDr.ZiliShaoDepartmentofComputingTheHongKongPolytechnicUniv.

OverviewoftheSubject(COMP3438)OverviewofUnixSys.Prog.ProcessFileSystemOverviewofDeviceDriverDevelopmentCharacterDeviceDriverDevelopmentIntroductiontoBlockDeviceDriverOverviewofComplierDesignLexicalAnalysisSyntaxAnalysisPartI:UnixSystemProgramming(DeviceDriverDevelopment)PartII:CompilerDesignCourseOrganization(Thislectureisinred)

OutlineLecture4:IntroductiontoDeviceDrivers1.Whatisadevicedriver?2.Relatedkerneldatastructuresfromagenericview3.DevicesandFiles4.Majordesignissues5.TypesofdevicedriversLecture5-I:ChardevicedriverIAsimpledevicedriver–“Helloworld”Lecture5-II:ChardevicedriverIIAdevicedriverforLEDLecture6:BlockDeviceDriverAdevicedriverforRAMDiskLecture5-II:ChardevicedriverIIIInterrupt-drivendriver(Button)

PartI:Intro.toDeviceDrivers

Whatisadevicedriver?AdevicedriverisacomputerprogramthatgluesanO.S.anditsI/Odevicestogether.DevicedriversactastranslatorsConvertinggenericrequestsreceivedfromanO.S.intocommandsthatspecificperipheralcontrollerscanunderstand.Example GenericFileRequests:write(fd,buf,100); Kernel–DeviceDriver:writetoharddisk2,block12345

RelatedKernelDataStructuresInUnix,fromagenericview,thefollowingstructuresarerelatedtodevicedrivers:UnixSystemArchitectureFileSubsystemanditsrelationswithChar/BlockdevicedrivertablesChar/Blockdevicedrivertables“fromagenericview”–whatthatmeans?InaparticularUnixO.S.,thesestructuresortablenamesmaybedifferentfromwementionhere.Butthebasicideashouldbethesame.

7UNIXSystemArchitecture

FileSubsystemChar/BlockDeviceDriverTablesFileSubsystemopenclosereadwrite