If we speak about writing drivers, we have to divide between kernel drivers and appserver drivers. Kernel drivers are used for hardware like soundcards, networkcards and also for file-system addons. Graphics drivers and the highlevel part of input drivers are handled by the appserver. While kernel drivers are written in C, appserver addons are written in C++. Common to both is that they are simple ELF modules, which are loaded if necessary. Unlike some UNIX systems, Syllable has a defined interface between the drivers and the kernel/appserver, which is not changed very often.
Please note that you have to be careful when writing drivers because a bug in a driver can cause the system to lock up and make it completely unusable. If you can, you should have a second Syllable installation, which you can use to remove invalid drivers.
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