Drivers

These are the currently implemented devices/hardware interfaces.

• ac97d - Realtek audio chipsets.
• acpid - ACPI.
• ahcid - SATA.
• alxd - Atheros ethernet (incomplete).
• bgad - Bochs emulator/debugger.
• block-io-wrapper - Library used by other drivers.
• e1000d - Intel Gigabit ethernet.
• ided - IDE.
• ihdad - Intel HD Audio chipsets.
• ixgbed - Intel 10 Gigabit ethernet.
• nvmed - NVMe.
• pcid - PCI.
• pcspkrd - PC speaker
• ps2d - PS/2
• rtl8168d - Realtek ethernet.
• sb16d - Sound Blaster audio (incomplete).
• vboxd - VirtualBox guest.
• vesad - VESA.
• xhcid - xHCI (incomplete).
• usbctl - USB control (incomplete).
• usbhidd - USB HID (incomplete).
• usbscsid - USB SCSI (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.