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I have built myself a GCC (3.4.4) for PowerPC with a cross compilation toolchain running on a x86, together with glibc-2.3.4 and binutils-2.16. On the PowerPC there is a system runnign...

OK, I got your point now, my n00b mistake was to include the driver header in my user space program, although I don't really need something defined in it. Nevertheless, a good precausion to such...

Yes, I include <linux/cdev.h> and <asm/semaphore.h> both in the test program and in my header file.
I found this in the above mentioned headers:
#ifndef _LINUX_CDEV_H
#define _LINUX_CDEV_H
...

Hello there,

Here is how it goes - I have written a small test driver as an exercise to "Linux Device Drivers" (http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/) and as a preparation for writing a real, functional...

First of all, thank you for responding @sysgate :)

I found out that "device (driver) model tree" in Linux context is the synonym collocation for "nexus and leaf drivers" in the context of Solaris....

Can someone please at least let me know wheather there is some connection between module stacking in Linux and the nexus/leaf driver scheme in Solaris? :confused:

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo PI1536 + SuSE 10.1
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @...

Hi there,

I thought a lot, wheather or not this thread belongs to this forum, hope I made the right choice.

So my question: Is there such thing like leaf driver in Linux, in correspondance to...

Thanks for the responses, you gave me good references

Meanwhile I found a lot of what I'm looking for under include/linux :)

Hello,

I'm not sure whether this thread is in the right subforum, if it isn't please excuse me.

So, here's my question - right now I'm trying to port a Solaris device driver for a custom piece...