johnt@bilver.UUCP (john temples) (11/19/88)
Does anyone know if AT&T (or anyone else) publishes any documentation on
writing device drivers for System V/386? I called AT&T, and they said they
thought they had such a book, but couldn't find it in their computers.
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: johnt@bilver.UUCPdar@belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow) (11/24/88)
In article <302@bilver.UUCP>, johnt@bilver.UUCP (john temples) writes: > > Does anyone know if AT&T (or anyone else) publishes any documentation on > writing device drivers for System V/386? I called AT&T, and they said they > thought they had such a book, but couldn't find it in their computers. > -- By far the best public reference on device drivers for System V/386 is the Integrated Software Development Guide written by AT&T and published by AT&T and Bell Tech. This is targeted for System V/386 Release 3.2. Your best bet is to call the AT&T 800 number for documentation and order with a credit card. We include the volume in our Software Development Set documentation volumes. Since it is licensed AT&T material associated with the operating system we can't sell it as a separate volume, but AT&T can. This book includes a sample source code floppy disk driver plus lots of other useful information. Despite the 3.2 targeting, it should be very useful for Microport and Interactive. Dimitri Rotow
neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) (11/24/88)
In article <302@bilver.UUCP> johnt@bilver.UUCP (John Temples) writes: >Does anyone know if AT&T (or anyone else) publishes any documentation on >writing device drivers for System V/386? I called AT&T, and they said they >thought they had such a book, but couldn't find it in their computers. Interactive's V/386 Unix comes with a small booklet that discusses device driver writing, and gives an example of a parallel printer driver. For what is there, it's pretty useful. I would be nice if it was bigger than a booklet though. Another place you might look is a book called _Writing a Unix Device Driver_ by Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira. It is a Wiley book, ISBN 0-471-62859-X (paperback), and was published in 1988. -- Steven C. Neighorn !tektronix!{psu-cs,reed,ogccse}!qiclab!neighorn Intel Corporation "Where we BUILD the Star Fighters that defend the Development Tools Operation frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada" 80960 Language Group work: (503) 696-7264 / home: (503) 645-7015