KENG%NUSEEV.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (01/10/90)
I am currently developing a device driver for the p1580 card from Proteon. My work station is using Unix system V release 3. I have been hunting around for the Kernel routines that I can use. The few kernel commands that I know are from the sun 3 reference manual "Writing a device driver". However since sun is using BSD unix, they are not compatible. The model of my machine is Motorola SysV/68. I really hope someone can help me in getting hold of all those kernel commands and routines. Many thanks.
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (01/11/90)
In article <22026@adm.BRL.MIL> KENG%NUSEEV.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >I am currently developing a device driver for the p1580 >card from Proteon. My work station is using Unix system V >release 3. I have been hunting around for the Kernel routines >that I can use. The few kernel commands that I know are >from the sun 3 reference manual "Writing a device driver". >However since sun is using BSD unix, they are not compatible. >The model of my machine is Motorola SysV/68. You probably will want to use System V.3 STREAMS. AT&T sells two books, a STREAMS Primer and a STREAMS Manual which contains much of what you need to know. The Primer is overpriced and is largely a subset of what is in the Manual, but when I remember reading both a few years ago, it felt like there was some stuff in the Primer which was missing in the manual. I can't say for certain right now. A STREAMS device driver is fairly straightforward once you grok the way the entire design works. It's always helpful to have boilerplate to copy from, of course, but you can probably do a fair job on your own. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu