Device Drivers, Part 9: I/O Control in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, talks about the typical ioctl() implementation and usage in Linux. “Get me a laptop, and tell me about the x86 hardware…
Device Drivers, Part 8: Accessing x86-Specific I/O-Mapped Hardware
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, continues the discussion on accessing hardware in Linux. The second day in the Linux device drivers’ laboratory was expected to be…
Device Drivers, Part 7: Generic Hardware Access in Linux
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, talks about accessing hardware in Linux. Shweta was all jubilant about her character driver achievements, as she entered the Linux device…
Device Drivers, Part 6: Decoding Character Device File Operations
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, continues to cover the various concepts of character drivers and their implementation, which was dealt with in the previous two articles…
Device Drivers, Part 5: Character Device Files — Creation & Operations
This article is a continuation of the series on Linux device drivers, and carries on the discussion on character drivers and their implementation. In my previous article, I had mentioned that even with…
Device Drivers, Part 4: Linux Character Drivers
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, deals with the various concepts of character drivers and their implementation.
Device Drivers, Part 3: Kernel C Extras in a Linux Driver
This article in the series on Linux device drivers deals with the kernel’s message logging, and kernel-specific GCC extensions. Enthused by how Pugs impressed their professor in the last class, Shweta wanted to…
Device Drivers, Part 2: Writing Your First Linux Driver in the Classroom
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, deals with the concept of dynamically loading drivers, first writing a Linux driver, before building and then loading it. Shweta and…
Device Drivers, Part 1: Linux Device Drivers for Your Girl Friend
This series on Linux device drivers aims to present the usually technical topic in a way that is more interesting to a wider cross-section of readers. “After a week of hard work, we…
May 21, 2013
Peter — Hi I followed the steps but on bootup of qemu it hangs at "Stopping configure virtual network devices, waiting for...
May 20, 2013
Aseem — can u just elaborate this part "edit the output file to include only the hash value. (It should only include...
May 19, 2013
raghu ram — Hi Anil, Your articles are awesome Please give some tutorials on PCI Sound Card drivers using ALSA.
May 18, 2013
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May 17, 2013
santosh yadav — hello everyone!
i am trying to do gpio access and encounter segmentation fault.
so to overcome it i will have to map...
