NVIDIA has published the source code of its Linux kernel modules for the R515 driver, allowing developers to provide greater integration, stability, and security for Linux distributions. The source ...

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 ...

In the 2.5 Linux kernel development series, a unified device driver model framework was created by Pat Mochel. This framework consists of a number of common structures and functions all device driver ...

Kernel drivers are the bridge between the Linux operating system and the hardware components of a computer. They play a crucial role in managing and facilitating communication between the OS and ...

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 ...

The SUSE SolidDriver program accelerates the adoption of new technologies to be used with SUSE Linux Enterprise by removing complexities and risks associated with deploying required kernel drivers, ...

To three open-source NTFS drivers for Linux with medium or major weaknesses, “ntfsplus” now joins, promising to overshadow all previous ones. The new one comes from Namjae Jeon and is a kernel driver ...

Getting Linux driver support for various hardware is hard enough, but now the FSF (Free Software Foundation) wants to start banning proprietary drivers? Stephen Shankland wrote this story on the ...

With newer GeForce GPUs, Linux distributions will use a driver for OpenGL applications that hands over the actual work to a Vulkan driver. In future, Linux distributions will rely on the "Zink" driver ...

OK, hands up, who knows what High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) is? It's an archaic networking data framing protocol that's used in modems, X.25, frame-relay, ISDN, and other now uncommon networking ...