Thread: Hardware driver

I don't have any specific questions quite yet, but I have been asked by my company to write a hardware specific driver for some stuff that we are developing.

I guess I was just wondering if anyone had an experience writing drivers, or if someone could point me to a place where I could look through some code to prepare myself. I have never written a driver before and while I know C fairly well, I don't use it on a regular basis so I'm going to need a refresher (on my own).

I'm going to be trained on how to write the driver (probably with some sort of template), but it'd be nice to have a reference from here if I have questions.

Thanks. Any comments welcomed.

You'll want to know your OS and platform requirements as well (I assume you do).
For Windows, I like this book.
For Linux, this book is a must.

gg

Seems like assembly would be more suited to the task. Not saying its impossible in C with the Windows Driver SDK or DDK, but most hardware drivers are in assembly.

Depends on the Operating system I think. Not sure how much of the windows stuft is done in assembly but most of the linux drivers are done in c with extra features.

Originally posted by Codeplug
You'll want to know your OS and platform requirements as well (I assume you do).
For Windows, I like this book.
For Linux, this book is a must.

gg

Sorry to not respond to this right away, I kinda forgot about it. I'm not exactly sure what OS it is going to be running on, but I've been told that it is an RTP driver. Apparently the whole concept is still somewhat experimental from what I've heard so I don't really know what I'm getting into. I guess I was just wondering if anyone has written one (a driver of any kind) that I could possible take a look at the code to see what I need to be refreshing on!?