Drivers

These are the currently implemented devices/hardware interfaces.

• ac97d - Realtek audio chipsets.
• acpid - ACPI (incomplete).

Lack of drivers for devices defined in AML.

• ahcid - SATA.
• alxd - Atheros ethernet (incomplete).

Lack of datasheet to finish.

• amlserde - a library to provide serialization/deserialization of the AML symbol table from ACPI (incomplete).
• bgad - Bochs emulator/debugger.
• block-io-wrapper - Library used by other drivers.
• e1000d - Intel Gigabit ethernet.
• ided - IDE.
• ihdad - Intel HD Audio chipsets.
• inputd - Multiplexes input from multiple input drivers and provides that to Orbital.
• ixgbed - Intel 10 Gigabit ethernet.
• nvmed - NVMe.
• pcid - PCI.
• pcspkrd - PC speaker
• ps2d - PS/2
• rtl8139d - Realtek ethernet.
• rtl8168d - Realtek ethernet.
• sb16d - Sound Blaster audio (incomplete).

Still need to determine a way to allocate memory under 16MiB for use in ISA DMA.

• usbctl - USB control (incomplete).

Missing class drivers for various classes.

• usbhidd - USB HID (incomplete).

Has tons of descriptors that are possible, not all are supported.

• usbscsid - USB SCSI (incomplete).

Missing class drivers for various classes.

• vboxd - VirtualBox guest.
• vesad - VESA.
• virtio-blkd - VirtIO block device (incomplete).
• virtio-core - VirtIO core.
• virtio-gpud - VirtIO GPU device (incomplete).
• virtio-netd - VirtIO net device (incomplete).
• xhcid - xHCI (incomplete).

Contributing to Drivers

If you want to write drivers for Redox, datasheets are preferable, when they are freely available. Be aware that datasheets are often provided under a Non-Disclosure Agreement from hardware vendors, which can affect the ability to create an MIT-licensed driver.

If you don't have datasheets, we recommend you to do reverse-engineering of available C code of BSD drivers.

We recommend BSDs drivers because BSD license is compatible with MIT (permissive), that way we can reuse the code in other drivers.