The hardware operators

The hardware operators are operators that you install on a liken cluster. Each one publishes one kind of machine hardware as DRA devices, so a workload claims that hardware the way Give a workload a device shows, with no privilege and no host path.

Each operator is a DRA driver of its own, separate from the operating system’s driver that Devices describes. The operating system publishes the hardware a machine holds, such as a Bluetooth radio, a GPU, or a sound card. A hardware operator publishes what that hardware serves, at the grain a workload asks for: a paired controller, a monitor output, an audio output.

The name of an operator’s device class is also the hostname of its manual. Each manual gives the install steps and the claims for its devices: