Marcus Folkesson

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Writing a clocksource driver for Linux

Writing a clocksource driver for Linux Today we are going to write a clocksource [1] driver for Linux! A clocksource in a Linux system is one of several parts of the kernel timekeeping abstractions. The clocksource is the the timeline of the Linux system and is the one you go to whenever you issue the command date. To do this, the clocksource should provide a monotonic, atomic counter that is as accurate as possible. cover

Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Thursday, October 10, 2024

Writing a UART driver for Linux

Writing a UART driver for Linux Today we are going to write a UART driver for Linux! UART (Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter) is on of the most common device-to-device communication protocols that almost every SoC or microcontroller has hardware support for. Most SoC has several UART ports, but sometimes that is not enough as in this case. Background I'm working in a project where we have an ARM SoC connected to an FPGA on the AEMIF interface. cover

Posted by Marcus Folkesson on Saturday, October 5, 2024

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