Small Linux-based devices often need to load firmware before a filesystem is available. A new kernel feature would replace driver-specific code with a general API for getting all needed firmware up ...

I am currently writing some software for hardware debugging and testing. I am writing for both Windows XP (using WDM and KMDF driver kits), and Linux (kernel 2.6). I would like to have my kernel mode ...

The development of low-level software such as drivers, kernels, hypervisors, run-times, system libraries, JITs, and firmware is very different from the development of applications. The goal of this ...

Cameron is a self-made geek, Android enthusiast, horror movie fanatic, musician, and cyclist. When he's not pounding keys here at AP, you can find him spending time with his wife and kids, plucking ...

The MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5, for many users, fixes an issue that causes disappearance of previously available screen resolutions. MacFixIt reader Don Neesley writes: "When I started cold ...

Plattformen: SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3, SUSE Manager Server 4.3, SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4, SUSE ...

Device Drivers are the software through which the kernel of a computer communicates with different hardware without having to go into the details of how the hardware works. It is software that ...