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12 <concept id="GUID-CA788AFE-D425-4B72-B8A2-34D38A8C341B" xml:lang="en"><title>Device |
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13 Driver Writing Guide Quick Start</title><shortdesc>Conceptual information that a developer should know before creating |
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14 a device driver.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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15 <p>A device driver is a program that controls a particular type of device |
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16 that is attached to a base port. Writing a device driver requires an in-depth |
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17 understanding of how the hardware and the software of a given platform function. |
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18 The Device Driver writing guide tells you what you need and how to create |
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19 a device driver.</p> |
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20 <section id="GUID-7DDE15F6-CF58-40EB-9A97-AC70CEE9AF8A"> <ul> |
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21 <li><p>For information about the parameters needed to create a valid Symbian |
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22 platform device driver, see <xref href="GUID-CB3A8650-751C-4DAA-9408-7AEB3C7FD41A.dita">Minimal |
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23 Driver Requirements</xref>.</p></li> |
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24 </ul><ul> |
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25 <li><p>For information about high-level implementation designs for your device |
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26 driver, see <xref href="GUID-0346036B-A470-4C18-B276-3A3485F6A069.dita">Design |
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27 Options</xref>.</p> </li> |
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28 </ul><ul> |
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29 <li><p>For information about how device drivers are implemented as logical |
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30 device drivers (LDDs) and physical device drivers (PDDs), see <xref href="GUID-EBF4F1F1-F76B-455B-B8EE-B7965CF0717E.dita">The |
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31 LDD/PDD Model</xref>.</p> </li> |
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32 </ul><ul> |
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33 <li><p>For information about organizing memory, managing data transfer across |
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34 memory boundaries and the data transfer between LDD and PDD, see <xref href="GUID-E90DBF35-0A05-4751-904D-4F06987FFF48.dita">Memory |
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35 Management</xref>.</p> </li> |
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36 </ul><ul> |
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37 <li><p>For information about the user-side requests to a driver and the synchronization |
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38 methods used by the driver, see <xref href="GUID-CFE0A4EB-845C-43B6-A732-AA155AFD99D6.dita">User |
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39 Requests and Synchronization</xref>.</p> </li> |
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40 </ul><ul> |
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41 <li><p>For information about how device drivers use interrupts, see <xref href="GUID-660A8E4C-F930-415C-8CCC-CB1DCCAA2442.dita">Interrupts</xref> .</p> </li> |
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42 </ul> </section> |
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43 </conbody></concept> |