[Arm-netbook] building a device driver

[lkcl luke]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:14 PM,  <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
> assuming i have an allwinner-a10 device running ics.
> can anyone point me at a resource explaing how i am going to compile and
> install a device driver for a particular piece of hardware i want to talk
> to?
>
> the driver is tiny, but the "closed source" library that sits on top of it
> assumes that it is talking to the driver.

 hmm, what's the hardware - is it a USB device, for example?  if so,
can you do "lsusb" and report its id (plug it into an x86 pc running
gnu/linux if that's easier).  also do you know: does the device driver
already exist in the linux kernel source code?

 /peace

 l.