Device driver
= Device driver
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Software supplying device-specific operations behind an <operating system> interface. For these examples its responsibilities include <DMA> setup and completion handling, or checking status for <polled input-output>. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/file-devices.pdf[Arpaci-Dusseau and Arpaci-Dusseau, OSTEP chapter 36, section 36.7: the driver abstraction]{ref}