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Device driver overview

What are device drivers?
    How drivers are accessed

Driver structure
    Header files and declarations
    Initialization, configuration, and closing
    I/O operations
    Interrupt handling
    Kernel functions

Synchronization and locks

Installation and configuration

Driver development
        Preparation
        Implementation
        Follow-up
    Application programs versus drivers
    Structure
    Parallel execution
    Interrupts
    Driver as part of the kernel