mark@motcsd.UUCP (Mark Jeghers) (11/14/89)
Several people have responded to me indicating that they can send me either sample code or printed information documenting kernel resources. I still await the receipt of this information, but I thank those helpful folks in advance for their willingness to be helpful. Many others have requested forwarding of whatever information I find. Due to the number of requests and the likelihood of some information being on paper and not a disk device, I am considering the possibility of offering mailouts of the totality of the information I collect. This will depend on: a) the amount and quality of the info I receive. b) the legality (will AT&T care if I reprint pages from their *discontinued* device driver manual, etc). c) finding some time to organise the stuff. Please do NOT send requests yet for this mailout idea! Please wait until the thing is firmed up and I know if I'll even be able to do it! What you *can* send right now is the following: a) any info that could be a valuable addition to a UNIX-pc device driver how-to-do-it packet. Especially good would be any document or poop-sheet you have made yourself (as it would have fewer potential copyright concerns attached to it. b) sample device drivers in the public domain. I am in the process of getting the few that are archived at osu-cis. Any others would be fine too. c) info on who I can talk to at AT&T to find out how much info out of a *discontinued* AT&T device driver manual I can distribute to UNIX-pc users (AT&T customers) - e.g. who can I talk to at AT&T to get some sort of permission to share this information? I can't imagine what objection AT&T would have, UNIX-pc info going to UNIX-pc users with *no* source code, the info coming from a book they don't even care to *sell* anymore... ok, that's about the size of it. hope to hear from some of you (including *you*, AT&T... :-) -- Mark Jeghers 408-578-9145 [h] "It's over your head, Motorola Computer Systems 408-864-2629 [w] it's on every side, ...hplabs!hpda!\ mountains of veggies and ....uunet!apple!motcsd!greek!mark fruit to the sky..." - Neil Peart