| # Drivers |
| |
| Drivers provide software interfaces for communicating with hardware (or virtual) |
| devices that are embedded in or connected to a system. In Fuchsia, drivers are |
| user-space [components][components]. Like any other Fuchsia component, a driver |
| is software that exposes and receives FIDL capabilities to and from other |
| components in the system. Using these FIDL calls, Fuchsia components interact |
| with drivers, which are bound to specific devices in the system. |
| |
| Similar to Fuchsia’s component framework, which manages Fuchsia components, the |
| [driver framework][driver-framework] manages the lifecycle and topology of |
| all devices (known as [nodes][nodes]) and drivers in a Fuchsia system. |
| |
| ## Table of contents |
| |
| Important: These pages contain information that is specific to the new |
| version of the driver framework (DFv2). |
| |
| * [Driver framework (DFv2)][driver-framework] |
| * [Driver manager][driver-manager] |
| * [Driver host][driver-host] |
| * [Driver index][driver-index] |
| * [Driver runtime][driver-runtime] |
| * [FIDL interface][fidl-interface] |
| * [Comparison between DFv1 and DFv2][dfv1-and-dfv2] |
| * [Drivers and nodes][nodes] |
| * [Node properties][node-properties] |
| * [Node capabilities][node-capabilities] |
| * [Node topology][node-topology] |
| * [Node lifecycle][node-lifecycle] |
| * [Composite nodes][composite-nodes] |
| * [Driver binding][driver-binding] |
| * [Binding sequence][binding-sequence] |
| * [Board driver and USB devices][board-driver-and-usb-devices] |
| * [Driver communication][driver-communication] |
| * [Service discovery (using `devfs`)][service-discovery] |
| * [FIDL communication][fidl-communication] |
| |
| <!-- Reference links --> |
| |
| [components]: /docs/concepts/components/v2/README.md |
| [driver-framework]: driver_framework.md |
| [driver-manager]: driver_framework.md#driver_manager |
| [driver-host]: driver_framework.md#driver_host |
| [driver-index]: driver_framework.md#driver_index |
| [driver-runtime]: driver_framework.md#driver_runtime |
| [fidl-interface]: driver_framework.md#fidl_interface |
| [dfv1-and-dfv2]: comparison_between_dfv1_and_dfv2.md |
| [nodes]: drivers_and_nodes.md |
| [node-properties]: drivers_and_nodes.md#node_properties |
| [node-capabilities]: drivers_and_nodes.md#node_capabilities |
| [node-topology]: drivers_and_nodes.md#node_topology |
| [node-lifecycle]: drivers_and_nodes.md#node_lifecycle |
| [composite-nodes]: drivers_and_nodes.md#composite_nodes |
| [driver-binding]: driver_binding.md |
| [binding-sequence]: driver_binding.md#binding_sequence |
| [board-driver-and-usb-devices]: driver_binding.md#board_driver_and_usb_devices |
| [driver-communication]: driver_communication.md |
| [service-discovery]: driver_communication.md#service_discovery_using_devfs |
| [fidl-communication]: driver_communication.md#fidl_communication |
