prelecture: "hall of fame" principle; best entries; contest...
summary of irq.c example program (very simple teaching example)
example usage: compiling and installing an ISR
ksyms: kernel symbol namespace pollution, etc
cat /proc/interrupts to see what's going on
clock and data on dual trace oscilloscope
start thinking about final project (lab9); one group mentioned making (or finding and interfacing gnu linux drivers to) a card writer.
another good possible project (to learn about simple transistor circuits) might be a simple circuit to drive two VGA TVs from one computer system