a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. A driver provides...

driver wrapper is a subroutine in a software library that functions as an adapter between an operating system and a driver, such as a device driver,...

A device driver handling a virtual device. VxD, a type of Windows device driver running in 32-bit protected mode. This disambiguation page lists articles...

In Unix-like operating systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were...

criteria. For each device, users can: Supply device drivers in accordance with the Windows Driver Model Enable or disable devices Tell Windows to ignore...

computing, the Windows Driver Model (WDM) – also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model – is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with...

that cross the driver's upper body pass directly over the HANS device on the driver's shoulders and buckle at the center of the driver's abdomen. Therefore...

modern urban and suburban railway systems, the driver is typically alone in an enclosed cab. Automatic devices were already beginning to be deployed on newer...

A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application...

provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic...

A filter driver is a Microsoft Windows driver that extends or modifies the function of peripheral devices or supports a specialized device in the personal...

class driver is a type of hardware device driver that can operate a large number of different devices of a broadly similar type. Class drivers are very...

well. Each driver is composed out of five parts: Linux kernel component DRM Linux kernel component KMS driver: basically the device driver for the display...

referred to as a blob or binary blob. The term usually refers to a device driver module loaded into the kernel of an open-source operating system, and...

virtualized environment: xf86-video-qxl, a driver for the "QXL video device". SPICE makes use of this driver though it works without it as well. In the...

controls all hardware resources (e.g. I/O, memory, cryptography) via device drivers, arbitrates conflicts between processes concerning such resources, and...

loop device functionality using different names. In Linux, device names are encoded in the symbol table entries of their corresponding device drivers. The...

Device drivers are programs which allow software or higher-level computer programs to interact with a hardware device. These software components act as...

standard hardware device of Amiga dealing with printers), and the standard parallel.device (which controlled parallel port) and the driver would then control...

in low-level computer programming, such as in the implementation of device drivers, or may provide access to I/O channels. An I/O algorithm is one designed...

libdrm wrapper functions. In addition, drivers export device-specific interfaces for use by user-space drivers and device-aware applications through ioctls...

supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver. During 2014 the Radeon R9 200 series GPUs offered a very competitive...

Windows and VDPAU on Linux and FreeBSD. The free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD also support UVD. OpenCL accelerates many scientific software...

code. Request codes are often device-specific. For instance, a CD-ROM device driver which can instruct a physical device to eject a disc would provide...

standard instruction set architecture-specific device drivers, EFI provides for a ISA-independent device driver stored in non-volatile memory as EFI byte code...

supervisor or kernel mode. Traditional operating system functions, such as device drivers, protocol stacks and file systems, are typically removed from the microkernel...

allowing a hardware device or controller to process commands received from a device driver out of order. It requires that the device driver attaches a tag...

task Computer, a computing device Device file, an interface of a peripheral device driver Electronic component, a device that can be embedded in the...

Intel's 'Iris' driver for generation 8+ iGPUs and for other free and open-source GPU device drivers. Gallium3D eases programming of device drivers by splitting...

to Unix, all source files of Linux are freely available, including device drivers. The initial success of Linux was driven by programmers and testers...