Hi

Hi @LaraMaia. So, are you a Gentoo user, or an Arch user, or both? :-)

@Junaga Not sure, it's kind fo hard to understand. Also, why are you restricting the definition of a driver only to I/O devices? And what's an ABI? Do you mean API or is that something else?

Application Binary Interface I read it on the systemcall article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_call

uff, I only had low level stuff in mind. like Kernel modules. It's pretty hard to talk about this things because a driver basically is only a translation software right? So far, I didn't found anything about a subdivision for this. That specifies it, on to only drivers that basically (build up) the kernel.

right, translation software between whatever the kernel expects (exposed by its driver API) and whatever the device expects

the latter doesn't have much to do with an instruction set architecture

the ISA only matters for the firmware you run on the device, if any

Or do I see something maybe completely wrong?

Of yes

@StephenKitt that makes sense, thank you ^^

Whatever Stephen said. He actually knows something about this sort of thing. Unlike me.

100 sth. rep user saying this. -> thats awkward

@Junaga Neither low reps nor high reps mean much. A high rep means you've spent a lot of time on the site. One of the few plusses of a high rep is that people are more inclined to take you seriously.

@Junaga the fact that I'm a Debian developer doesn't say much about my hardware knowledge ;-). But I have contributed driver patches to the Linux kernel! And please don't feel awkward, we all start out knowing nothing and there's always stuff to learn from every one.

@FaheemMitha ... sometimes even when we're wrong ;-)

Guys don't make me cry

please

@StephenKitt Indeed. :-)

@FaheemMitha Gentoo.

@LaraMaia Ok.