Kyle Marcus

I have created this very simple character driver just to see how the process works from beginning to end when creating a device driver in Linux. Before we start, this driver is going to be compiled against the Linux 2.6 kernel and will probably not work in earlier versions. Also, make sure you have set up your development environment and that you have the Linux 2.6 kernel header files installed. If you need to review any of this, look back…

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A good place to start playing around with the Linux kernel and building device drivers, is inside a virtual machine (VM). I am running Windows on my desktop, but I use a VM to run different distributions of Linux. These VM’s are a good place to do development on because if you totally destroy the operating system, no harm is done to your host operating system (which is Windows in my case). To create a VM, you first need a…

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