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<concept id="GUID-73D9E2F2-5965-479E-97DB-C3773DA0D90C" xml:lang="en"><title>Device Driver Quick Start</title><shortdesc>A quick introduction to the device driver documentation.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<p>Device drivers provide a mechanism for applications and other operating
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system functions to access hardware devices without needing to know
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how each specific piece of hardware works. In addition device drivers
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may be written so that part of the device driver is user-side space
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and the rest is kernel-side so that the device driver can access shared
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memory and resources that belong to the Kernel.</p>
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<section id="GUID-D6C44505-3FD8-41A1-A989-666E91BEBB92"><title>Who
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this documentation is for</title><p>There are two main sets of users
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for device drivers:<ul>
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<li><p>Application developers that want to use device drivers</p></li>
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<li><p>Developers that need to create or amend device drivers.</p></li>
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</ul></p><p>This documentation set is aimed at the second category
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of users. If you are an application developer and want to use a particular
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device driver, then you should search for, and read the documentation
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for that specific device driver.</p></section>
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<section id="GUID-25F588AB-D717-44CB-9328-067CEA48D7EF">       <title>Device driver framework</title><p>The device driver guide explains
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the concepts of device driver framework and how to implement a device
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driver.</p><ul>
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<li><p>For the basic concepts of device driver, see <xref href="GUID-79620372-BADC-4826-A3AC-7FDBCFF98DA9.dita">Device Driver Concepts</xref></p></li>
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<li><p>To write a device driver, see <xref href="GUID-C22974D8-CFB9-4A83-BE58-CCC97EA8DF13.dita">Device Driver Writing
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Guide</xref></p></li>
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<li><p>To use the kernel services in a device driver, see <xref href="GUID-DC8D3736-EDCF-54CB-A614-2AAC4664F1CA.dita">Kernel-Side Services</xref></p></li>
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<li><p>To debug your device driver implementation, see <xref href="GUID-26714A57-B6B4-5E81-B512-FB520718482B.dita">Debug Monitor Tool</xref></p></li>
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<li><p>It is important to understand how memory is paged in the system,
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so you should also read <xref href="GUID-896A1177-C3F5-40DF-8B3B-56F4442D8D99.dita">Demand Paging</xref>.</p></li>
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</ul>           </section>
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</conbody></concept>
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