home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.development      Operating system development chatter      4,255 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 2,474 of 4,255   
   mutazilah@gmail.com to Joe Monk   
   Re: drivers   
   10 Jul 21 03:05:01   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 6:57:48 PM UTC+10, Joe Monk wrote:   
   > > Ok, so how about plugging in the USB to the computer   
   > > and letting the computer load the driver instead of the   
   > > OS loading the driver?   
      
   > Your question doesnt make sense. Im not going to plug in my   
   > USB drive until I want to read my data from it. So when would   
   > the hardware load the driver versus the OS loading the driver?   
      
   I don't know if plugging in a USB device causes an interrupt,   
   but if it does, the BIOS/UEFI gets control and does its stuff,   
   and then informs the OS via an agreed interrupt that the OS   
   hooked in to that there is a new device available?   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca