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+# Linux Kernel Foundation (February 2022 batch)
+
+This repository contains materials what I learnt, and am learning in context to Linux Kernel Programming. This includes programming in userspace and kernelspace.
+
+More content will be added as the class progresses.
+
+## Course overview
+
+### Systems Programming
+
+#### Pre-requisites
+
+ - Being able to program in C
+ - Ability to use the Linux CLI
+
+#### What is covered | What you are expected to learn
+
+ - Learning about Assembly language programming
+  - ARM Assembly
+  - x86 Assembly
+
+ - Advance concepts of Linux (userspace)
+  - How a process gets created
+  - Creating threads
+  - Handling thread priority
+  - Multithreading
+  - Thread sync
+
+ - Debugging (userspace)
+  - `valgrind`
+  - `gdb`
+  - AddressSanitizer
+
+ - Build System
+  - Makefiles
+
+ - DPDP and SPDK
+
+### Linux Programming
+
+#### What is covered | What you are expected to learn
+
+ - Introduction to the Linux Kernel
+
+ - Basic entities in the Linux Kernel
+  - Process Management
+  - Sync various elements
+  - Memory management
+  - Device driver management
+  - Spinlock
+
+ - Device drivers
+  - Basic drivers
+  - Char drivers
+  - Misc drivers
+  - Platform drivers (dtb, dto)
+  - PWM drivers
+  - DRM + GPU drivers
+  - Block drivers
+
+ - Advance drivers
+  - USB
+  - PCIe
+
+ - Linux debugging techniques
+  - kgdb
+  - printk (not sure if this is supposed to be printk, not audible in recorded lectures)
+  - BPF
+  - JTAG
+  - Other infrastructure offered by the Linux Kernel
+
+ - Networking
+  - Stack overview
+  - Proogramming from user[space(?)] POV
+  - How it works inside the Linux Kernel
+  - Inner working of a driver