Understanding hardware support

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes to all of the below.

Greg


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:39:17PM -0700, Debee Norling wrote:
> Saqib,
> 
> Thank you so, so much for taking time to answer these questions.
> 
> Yes, I have been reading Linux Documentation project information, and your
> response clarified much of what I have already read.
> 
> So are you saying that a module is the same thing as a device driver and
> that this driver can become part of the kernel (if it is compiled with the
> kernel)? And are you also saying  the same module also can be external, that
> is, a user can choose to have it running or disabled?
> 
> If I have finally got it right,  then much of what I've been reading
> suddenly makes a whole lot more sense.
> 
> You are correct about my motives;  I don't want a fully working system,
> because I do want to solve problems. My only frustration was in not being
> able to find  information about some very basic details. There is plenty of
> beginner-oriented material about UNIX out there, but it typically shows you
> twenty ways to display the date, and tells you nothing about how to get a
> system working. More advanced docs  tell you about system internals,
> assuming you already know the basics.
> 
> 
> --Debee
> 
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