Resources Rubini, Alessandro, Jonathan Corbet, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Device Drivers, third Ed. , O’Reilly, 2005. On the one hand, this is a very readable and thorough treatment of kernel-level ...

The Linux kernel has turned 34 years old today. On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds posted to a newsgroup on Usenet that he ...

Even then the idea of marrying proprietary device drivers to an open-source kernel was blasphemous to some, though it was also the only reason others were willing to engage with Linux.

Intel layoffs have left multiple Linux drivers without maintainers, raising concerns about future compatibility and ...

To prove Rust advantage when writing Linux drivers, the Android team is working on porting the Binder IPC driver, which is used for inter-process communication (IPC) on Android and was accepted in ...

2nd course in the Advanced Embedded Linux Development .Instructor: Dan WalkesThis course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux ...

The development does not make NVIDIA drivers part of the Linux kernel, and no upstream integration can occur. However, this doesn't mean that NVIDIA's move is insignificant for the Linux world.

Linux kernel 4.8 will support Microsoft's Surface 3 tablet according to a letter to Linus Torvalds. A touchscreen controller driver was recently submitted.

In an unprecedented move, Silicon Titan Nvidia has made the GPU kernel drivers for Linux open-source, paving the way for wider adoption of team green’s hardware beyond Windows.

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...