I have a regular discussion about user-mode drivers and Linux. It starts with a customer who maintains a DOS system realizing that at some point--usually sooner than later--he must upgrade his ...

So I've been having some PCI troubles as indicated in this thread: Assigning 1GB of memory to a PCI device?<BR><BR>My question is, with a limited but not completely n00b amount of experience, how ...

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 ...

Almost all Linux kernel device drivers work on more than just one type of processor. This only happens because device-driver writers adhere to a few important rules. These rules include using the ...

Here are the benefits and some caveats to running data-path applications in the user space. Discussed is Linux's UIO framework. Traditionally, packet-processing or data-path applications in Linux have ...

In previous articles, we looked at how to configure the kernel as well as the key components of an embedded operating system (OS). This new article focuses on the hardware components of embedded Linux ...