Writing a device driver

[Pär Lidén]

Hello, btw, have you checked this UIO (user-space drivers things out)? From
what I've heard, kernel programming is significantly more difficult than
user-lever programming. For example,you can't debug it normally with gdb,
you can't use normal libraries, just the special in-kernel libraries, and
memory management is harder also. By using this tool you only need to write
a small portion in kernel-space, and can write the rest in user-space. Using
C++ for the user-space would not be a problem here for instance.

Just a suggestion though, might be better to do it completely in kernel
space.

Cheers
Pär

2008/1/2, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks! Looks like exactly what I was looking for.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Jan 1, 2008 6:14 PM, <peterm1830-lkml at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> > http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
> >
> > really good book
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> schrieb:
> >
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm not sure this is the right place for this but I
> > > hope someone can point
> > > me in the right direction. I currently have an Acer
> > > laptop with an
> > > integrated webcam. There is no driver for this
> > > webcam and I'm seriously
> > > considering writing one. I'm a good C++ and Java
> > > coder and I'm sure I have
> > > the chops to do it. I've just never done it before.
> > > Can anyone point me to
> > > any helpful 'get started' tutorials for writing
> > > device drivers under linux?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Anthony
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