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RE: linux device drivers



On 25-Aug-99 ICON ICON wrote:
> I am a C++ programmer, and I'm intrested in writing device drivers for 
> linux. Since I know that one cannot use normal pc assembly on linux 
> compilers (i've tried using the asm tag with gcc g++, did not work) to 
> define the hardware interface. What is the linux device driver structure? 
> How does linux define hardware interface?

there is a REALLY good O'Reilly book called "linux device drivers".  Check it
out.

gcc will take asm, just not the same style as used in dos/windows land.


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