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What are some minimal requirements of a device in order to make it possible to write a device driver for it?


I started lately reading some articles about the kernel space and especially about device drivers. So I was wondering are there some minimal requirements for a device in order to make it easy to write a device driver for it?


Solution

  • A possibility to communicate with it from the kernel (PCI, USB, etc...) and documentation. Obviously a kind of hardware debugging process can improve things.