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Steven Matthews
Steven Matthews

Reputation: 11285

How do you program a device driver for OSX?

So I am trying to make a hackintosh, and I want to write a device driver for a piece of hardware I have.

How would one go about learning how to program device drivers? Does it require assembly language?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 222

Answers (2)

nielsbot
nielsbot

Reputation: 16022

You will need to learn I/O Kit--it's the (embedded) C++ framework/runtime in the kernel. What kind of device is it? PCI?

Here's another documentation link:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/AccessingHardware/AH_Intro/AH_Intro.html

Good luck...

Upvotes: 0

Ben
Ben

Reputation: 1210

You would want to write a Kernel extension.

Apple has a introduction to the topic in their developer library

Upvotes: 1

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