When you select a device driver, it must be one that is appropriate for your device. The device driver must send commands to the device that the device understands. For example, if you are using an X ...

When you design a measurement system, you choose the appropriate hardware and incorporate it into the test program. You have several hardware choices: traditional test instruments, data-acquisition ...

Severing your ties to cable can be liberating, particularly around the time of the month when that bill from your cable provider used to arrive. But cable cutters have to give up some luxuries in the ...

This paper describes a methodology for automatically generating device drivers for embedded systems. We formally specify the device behavior and attributes in an input specification called DPS (Device ...

The Linux USB subsystem has grown from supporting only two different types of devices in the 2.2.7 kernel (mice and keyboards), to over 20 different types of devices in the 2.4 kernel. Linux currently ...

Since this column began, it has discussed how a Linux driver writer can create various types of kernel drivers, by explaining the different kernel driver interfaces including TTY, serial, I2C and the ...

Hey guys, I am currently taking an Operating Systems class in school and for my final project I am going to do something involving writing a device driver for linux. However, I am having a very hard ...