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Are hardware drivers universal

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No. They are written for a specific device or for a set of devices containing a specific chipset. They are also usually written for a specific operating system, unless they have an accompanying wrapper that adapts a generic block of code to a specific kernel.

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