extend IOWarrior documentation

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marschap
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<para>
The driver was developed and tested with IOWarrior24 and the IOWarrior40.
Although there are chances for it to work with an IOWarrior50,
Although there are good chances for it to work with an IOWarrior50,
the current state regarding support of this chip is unknown due to the
lack of the required hardware.
</para>
<para>
The driver is based on the <ulink url="http://libusb.sourceforge.net/"><filename>libusb</filename></ulink>
USB library, which should make it work with Linux, the different BSB variants
as well as Darwin/MacOS X.
<note>
<para>
When using a <filename>libusb</filename> based driver like <literal>IOWarrior</literal>,
<application>LCDd</application> needs to be started as root.
</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>
Newer Linux kernels (2.6.20 and higher) provide a kernel module
<filename>iowarrior.ko</filename> that allows controlling IOWarrior
chips using device files.
Having this module loaded may hinder <application>LCDd</application>
from starting using the <literal>IOWarrior</literal> driver.
In this case, simply unload the kernel module.
</para>
</note>
</para>
</sect2>