As an example of why you might want to roll your own, consider a custom FPGA driver. Continue reading “Linux Device Drivers In Only A Few Years” → Posted in Linux Hacks , Software ...

For example, the USB specification dictates that all multibyte data fields are in little-endian form. So if you have a USB driver that reads a multibyte field from the USB connection, you need to ...

This code accompanies Michael Eager's blog “Getting started with Embedded Linux: Part Seven” from April 2014. The article describes the step-by-step development of a simple character device driver for ...

As part of the Rust for Linux project, aimed to make it possible to use Rust for Linux driver development, the Android team at Google is working on evaluating the benefits that using Rust would bring.

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.

With Linux, drivers are all included with the Linux kernel, ... So for the above example, I was able to take the AT&T card, plug it into a laptop running Fedora Linux 12, ...

Let us continue to use this straightforward example to discuss several possible (re)implementations under embedded Linux. Developers who are reticent to learn the particulars of Linux driver design, ...

Using Ubuntu 18.10 as an example, users just need to go "Software & Updates" and click on "Additional Drivers." There you'll see an option to install the Nvidia Driver metapackage, labeled as ...

This driver should appear over 2015, and the “AMDGPU” kernel driver is set to debut in Linux 4.2. (Yes, we’re already past Linux 4.0 !) However, the driver is in a very early state and has a ...