4.3. Driver Development Guide
This chapter aims to provide developers with a detailed guide on driver development, covering a range of driver debugging and configuration options, as well as driver-related features and debugging methods. Here is an overview of this chapter:
Driver development is a crucial part of embedded system development, which involves interaction and control with hardware devices, as well as integration with operating systems. This guide will lead developers to gain insight into the development, debugging and configuration processes of various drivers, thereby helping developers better understand and utilize hardware resources.
This chapter contains a series of sub-chains, each focusing on introducing a specific type of driver or related features to debug and configure methods. Specifically include:
-Configure uboot and kernel option parameters: Describes how to configure uboot and kernel option parameters to facilitate adaptation to target hardware devices and drivers.
-Debugging guide for various hardware interfaces: Debugging guide for various hardware interfaces including UART, GPIO, Pinctrl, IO-DOMAIN, ADC, SPI, SDIO, I2C, PWM, RTC, PMIC, LCD, Audio and other hardware interfaces, covering common driver development and debugging requirements. -Other functions and debug instructions: including Thermal system, self-start settings, custom system mirroring, low-power mode debugging and other functions and debug instructions, providing developers with more comprehensive development support.
By reading this chapter, developers will be able to gain an in-depth understanding of the development principles and debugging methods of various drivers, so as to carry out driver development work more efficiently and contribute to the stability and performance improvement of the system.
- 4.3.1. Address space mapping
- 4.3.2. Configure U-Boot and Kernel Option Parameters
- 4.3.3. UART Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.4. GPIO Debug Guide
- 4.3.5. Pinctrl Debug Guide
- 4.3.6. IO-Domain Debug Guide
- 4.3.7. ADC Debug Guide
- 4.3.8. SPI Debug Guide
- 4.3.8.1. SPI Overview
- 4.3.8.2. Features
- 4.3.8.3. Functional Description
- 4.3.8.4. Driver Code
- 4.3.8.5. Functional Usage
- 4.3.8.6. Common SPI Communication Errors and Troubleshooting Methods
- 4.3.9. I2C Debug Guide
- 4.3.10. LPWM Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.11. PWM Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.12. RTC Debug Guide
- 4.3.13. Watchdog Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.14. Thermal System
- 4.3.14.1. Overview of the Thermal System
- 4.3.14.2. Functional Description of the Thermal System
- 4.3.14.3. Thermal Driver Code
- 4.3.14.4. Functions and Usage of the Thermal System
- Explanation of Key Structures in Thermal Driver
- Key Function Interfaces of Thermal Subsystem
- thermal_set_governor Function
- thermal_register_governor Function
- thermal_unregister_governor Function
- update_temperature Function
- thermal_zone_device_update Function
- thermal_zone_device_check Function
- thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device Function
- thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device Function
- thermal_cooling_device_unregister Function
- bind_tz Function
- thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips Function
- thermal_zone_device_unregister function
- thermal_init function
- 4.3.14.5. Thermal system debugging guide for driver platform
- 4.3.14.6. Thermal reference documentation
- 4.3.15. Ethernet Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.16. PMIC Driver Debugging Guide
- 4.3.16.1. PMIC Overview
- 4.3.16.2. PMIC Functional Description
- 4.3.16.3. PMIC Driver Code
- 4.3.16.4. PMIC Usage Guide
- 4.3.16.5. PMIC Testing
- 4.3.16.6. Common PMIC Issues
- 4.3.16.7. Reference Documents
- 4.3.17. LCD Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.18. USB/USB Gadget Debug Guide
- 4.3.18.1. Overview
- 4.3.18.2. Functional Description
- 4.3.18.3. Code Analysis
- 4.3.18.4. USB Gadget Function Usage
- 4.3.18.5. Common Issues
- 4.3.19. Audio Development and Debugging Guide
- 4.3.19.1. Overview
- 4.3.19.2. Features
- 4.3.19.3. Functional Description
- 4.3.19.4. Driver Code
- 4.3.19.5. Function Usage
- 4.3.19.6. Common Issues
- Q1: How to troubleshoot silence issues?
- Q2: Few LOGs, unable to locate the problem, what to do?
- Q3: How to determine sound card registration success and PCM device correspondence?
- Q4: What is an xrun issue, and how to locate and resolve it when encountered?
- Q5: Errors related to opening device nodes:
- 4.3.20. SDIO Usage Guide
- 4.3.21. Wi-Fi Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.22. Bluetooth Driver Debug Guide
- 4.3.22.1. Overview
- 4.3.22.2. RealTek RTL8852BS Porting
- 4.3.22.3. FCS960K Porting
- 4.3.22.4. Bluetooth Usage
- 4.3.22.5. Common Issues
- 4.3.23. QoS Debug Guide
- 4.3.24. AXI-Monitor Debug Guide
- 4.3.25. X5 USB User Manual
- 4.3.26. boardinfo Debug Guide
- 4.3.27. Time Synchronization Debugging Guide
- 4.3.28. bootloader Usage instructions
- 4.3.28.1. Bootloader User Guide
- Introduction to Bootloader
- Bootloader Boot Process
- Introduction to Secure Boot Process
- U-Boot Dynamic Configuration of Kernel ION Reserved Memory Size Usage Guide
- U-Boot Usage Guide for dtb overlay
- U-Boot Configuration of Watchdog
- U-Boot Configuration of PHY
- U-Boot Configuration of UART
- U-Boot Configuration of IO-Domain
- Description of Commonly Used Commands in U-Boot
- Bootloader Glossary
- 4.3.28.2. BL2 Configuration File Description
- 4.3.28.1. Bootloader User Guide
- 4.3.29. HIFI5 Guidelines for use