Request for Device Driver Text [summary]

[Dave Bloom]

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Thanx to all those who responded to my device driver query. Although
I received many reply's asking for the results, I got relatively few
suggestions on where to look for a good "how-to" manual. Here are the
replies, edited to protect the names of the innocent:

> --
> Although I did not take the course, I saw a book given out
> by Masscomp with a course that they tought on writing
> device drivers and thought it was quite good.
> --
> I'm told Dr. Dobbs Computer Journal, December 1984, is a good starting point.
> -- 
> Sun Microsystems Inc have a manual called 'Writing Device Drivers for the
> Sun Workstation', part number 800-1195-01, and the revision I have is
> Rev. E of 15 May 1985. It's not a first-time tutorial, but it should be better
> than nothing. SMI's address (at least the one quoted in the manual) is:
> 
> 	Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> 	2550 Garcia Avenue
> 	Mountain View, CA 94043
> 
> And their phone number is: +1 415 960 1300 
> --
> In the meantime you might want to look at the 'XINU' book for
> concepts.  It's NOT unix but explains the upper/lower half driver concepts
> pretty well.  There is some info in the manuals too.  In mine (Uniplus+ SYSV),
> it's in the back of 'Programming Guide' under 'UNIX I/O'.  Occasionally you'll
> see a driver posted to the net - I've archived a few of these.  They usaually
> have no comments but rereading over and over and over helps.  Everything
> I've found on the net has been for bsd 4.2 so details are not always
> appropriate for me (sys5).
> --
> The Microsoft Xenix 3 and SCO Xenix 5 have good sections
> in their manuals on how do write device drivers for Xenix,
> if you can get your hands on them.  Some of the details are
> different, but the general structure is the same as UNIX.
> In fact, most UNIXes differ in the same details.
> 
> In SCO Xenix 5, the relevant chapter is Chapter 9 in the
> Xenix Programmer's Guide.
> --

Hope this'll help some more of you folks. To those who mailed, requesting
this information, here it is.
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