Help: Device driver from Xenix within Unix...

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Sat Aug 4 02:12:29 AEST 1990


In article <1585 at eyrie.img.uu.oz.au> marcb at eyrie.img.uu.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma [Tau]) writes:
>Is it possible to link a Xenix device driver into the Unix kernal?

Probably not without recompiling. See 3-77 of the Integrated Software
Development Guide. There are a number of differences between the Xenix
and UNIX kernel environment spelled out, some of which are likely to
effect any driver I can think of (well, maybe you could implement a
"null" device that was portable :->).
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