Archive for October 8th, 2007

Seagate launches first laptop HHD — blames Vista drivers for poor …

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Ed Bott:

According to Melissa Johnson, a Seagate product manager, the sub-par performance for all HHDs stems from first generation issues with both the BIOS and Vista device drivers, “they don’t know how to utilize the flash.” Oh dear. …

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A survey of Linux device drivers

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Ed Bott:

In Linux, a device driver is code that implements a userspace or kernelspace abstraction of a physical device. Examples of device drivers include code that allows user applications to stream data through a 16550 UART, …

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