Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

I've got a PCI card that I need to write a Linux driver for. It's a simple communications card that sends/receives from and routes data between two 160 Mbps optical fiber links. I've got an existing ...

Almost all Linux kernel device drivers work on more than just one type of processor. This only happens because device-driver writers adhere to a few important rules. These rules include using the ...

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many purposes, ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Linux has consistently ranked among the top operating systems used in embedded system design. With the rapid growth in interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the ability of ...

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 ...

Microsoft, which has been at odds with the Linux community over the years because of intellectual property issues, on Monday said it has released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux kernel ...