[Johannes 4GNU_Linux] has been filming a video series on how to write Linux device drivers for a couple of years now, but luckily, you won’t need that long to watch them or to create your own… ...

Chapter 9. Interfacing with Device Drivers (Continued) By Chris Simmonds. Writing a kernel device driver . Eventually, when you have exhausted all the previous user space options, you will find ...

Linux device drivers fall into three broad categories: character, block, and network. Of the three, the character driver interface is the most flexible and therefore, the most common. Linux drivers ...

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you ...

Rubini, Alessandro, Jonathan Corbet, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers, third Ed., O’Reilly, 2005. On the one hand, this is a very readable and thorough treatment of kernel-level ...

USB device driver programming is apparently within the reach of mere mortal. You can get cheap USB controller for a few bucks, and some of them even have Open-Source firmware.

As indicated above, porting character and block device drivers to Linux is a straightforward if time-consuming activity. Porting network drivers, though, can seem much more daunting. Remember that ...

Linux bypasses these device installation issues with drivers that are all included in the kernel. The kernel itself loads modules and drivers as needed, without any interaction with the user needed.

There have been debates of Windows and Linux over the years about supported hardware and device drivers. Mostly the debates have come down to these facts:- Support for hardware in Windows is ...

Editor's Note: Linux remains an attractive option for embedded systems developers. In fact, industry surveys such as the Embedded Market Study by UBM (EDN's parent company) consistently show interest ...