driverkit 0.8.0

A driver framework defining standard types and interfaces for writing device drivers.
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Driverkit

Framework for writing and simplifying testing of device drivers. This is work in progress.

License

See LICENSE files.

Authors

Gerd Zellweger, Reto Achermann

Components

  • iomem: managing memory for buffers used by devices such as network cards, disks, etc.
  • devq: a queue interface to talk to hardware descriptor queues.

Usage

Using the DevMem type on Linux will require Hugepages:

echo 100 >/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages_mempolicy
echo 4 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages_mempolicy