[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 ...

Kernel development has special requirements. If you're taking the device driver tutorial at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, here's how to get your laptop ready to go.

Kernel drivers link to the heart of the operating system (OS) and provide entry points to functions such as open, read, write, and close. Depending on your version of Linux, the OS offers several ...

This course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux kernel drivers for Embedded devices. The Yocto build system is introduced, which ...

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 ...

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 p… ...