Entire Site
Free Trial
Safari Books Online is a digital library providing on-demand subscription access to thousands of learning resources.
- Create BookmarkCreate Bookmark
- Create Note or TagCreate Note or Tag
- DownloadDownload
- PrintPrint
Chapter 2. The Hardware Environment
Chapter 2. The Hardware Environment
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
It is a fact of life that device drivers must interact with "real" hardware. Traditionally, first-generation device drivers were written as unit test code by the hardware designers. These early drivers were then passed to hardware-savvy software engineers to produce a fully-integrated driver.
