If any of the hardware in your system requires non-free firmware to beloaded with the device driver, you can use one of thetarballs of common firmware packages or download an unofficial imageincluding these non-free firmwares. Instructions how to use the tarballsand general information about loading firmware during an installation canbe found in the Installation Guide.
****Windows 10 and Windows 11 only. Universal Windows Drivers enable developers to create a single driver package that runs across multiple different device types, from embedded systems to tablets and desktop PCs.
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The free USB2 Application Programming Interface has been designed to allow access by 3rd party programs to the PassMark USB 2.0 loop back plug. It provides several functions to communicate with the USB2 loop back plugs as an easy way to use the plugs without having to write any device driver or extra firmware code. For more information, please see this page.
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In UNIX, hardware devices are accessed by the user through special devicefiles. These files are grouped into the /dev directory, and system callsopen, read, write, close, lseek, mmap etc. areredirected by the operating system to the device driver associated with thephysical device. The device driver is a kernel component (usually a module)that interacts with a hardware device.
In the UNIX world there are two categories of device files and thusdevice drivers: character and block. This division is done by the speed,volume and way of organizing the data to be transferred from the device to thesystem and vice versa. In the first category, there are slow devices, whichmanage a small amount of data, and access to data does not require frequentseek queries. Examples are devices such as keyboard, mouse, serial ports,sound card, joystick. In general, operations with these devices (read, write)are performed sequentially byte by byte. The second category includes deviceswhere data volume is large, data is organized on blocks, and search is common.Examples of devices that fall into this category are hard drives, cdroms, ramdisks, magnetic tape drives. For these devices, reading and writing is done atthe data block level.
For the two types of device drivers, the Linux kernel offers different APIs.If for character devices system calls go directly to device drivers, in case ofblock devices, the drivers do not work directly with system calls. Inthe case of block devices, communication between the user-space and the blockdevice driver is mediated by the file management subsystem and the block devicesubsystem. The role of these subsystems is to prepare the device driver'snecessary resources (buffers), to keep the recently read data in the cachebuffer, and to order the read and write operations for performance reasons.
In UNIX, the devices traditionally had a unique, fixed identifier associatedwith them. This tradition is preserved in Linux, although identifiers can bedynamically allocated (for compatibility reasons, most drivers still use staticidentifiers). The identifier consists of two parts: major and minor. The firstpart identifies the device type (IDE disk, SCSI disk, serial port, etc.)and the second one identifies the device (first disk, second serial port,etc.). Most times, the major identifies the driver, while the minor identifieseach physical device served by the driver. In general, a driver will have amajor associate and will be responsible for all minors associated with thatmajor.
In the kernel, a character-type device is represented bystruct cdev, a structure used to register it in thesystem. Most driver operations use three important structures:struct file_operations, struct file and struct inode.
As mentioned above, the character device drivers receive unaltered system callsmade by users over device-type files. Consequently, implementation of a characterdevice driver means implementing the system calls specific to files: open,close, read, write, lseek, mmap, etc. These operations aredescribed in the fields of the struct file_operations structure:
It can be noticed that the signature of the function differs from the systemcall that the user uses. The operating system sits between the user andthe device driver to simplify implementation in the device driver.
Returning to device drivers, the two entities have almost always standard waysof using: the inode is used to determine the major and minor of the device onwhich the operation is performed, and the file is used to determine the flagswith which the file was opened, but also to save and access (later) privatedata.
To implement a device driver, it is recommended that you create a structurethat contains information about the device, information used in the module. Inthe case of a driver for a character device, the structure will contain a cdevstructure field to refer to the device. The following example uses the structmy_device_data:
A driver for a device is the interface between an application and hardware. Asa result, we often have to access user-space data. Accessing it can not be donedirectly (by de-referencing a user-space pointer). Direct access of auser-space pointer can lead to incorrect behavior (depending on architecture, auser-space pointer may not be valid or mapped to kernel-space), a kernel oops(the user-mode pointer can refer to a non-resident memory area) or securityissues. Proper access to user-space data is done by calling the macros /functions below:
In addition to read and write operations, a driver needs the ability to performcertain physical device control tasks. These operations are accomplished byimplementing a ioctl function. Initially, the ioctl system call used Big KernelLock. That's why the call was gradually replaced with its unlocked versioncalled unlocked_ioctl. You can read more on LWN:
Restrict access to the device with atomic variables, so that a single processcan open the device at a time. The rest will receive the "device busy" error(-EBUSY). Restricting access will be done in the open function displayed bythe driver. Follow comments marked with TODO 3 and implement them. 2ff7e9595c
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