Linux Device Drivers Development

Environment setup

Before you start any development, you need to set an environment up. The environment dedicated to Linux development is quite simple, at least on Debian-based systems:

 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo \
 gcc-multilib build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev \
 xterm ncurses-dev lzop  

There are parts of the code in this book that are compatible with ARM system on chip (SoC) solutions. You should install gcc-arm as well:

 sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

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