rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill) (01/16/91)
A question that may be answered by the OBIOS draft specification, but isn't obvious to me is.. who will write the device dependent routines for various devices, will it be the device manufacturers or OS writers.. what i really want to know is, if i write an OS that uses the OBIOS, will i be able to acquire the *drivers* i need, and at what expense. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Robert Hartill, Dept Of Computing Mathematics, UWCC, Cardiff, UK. :: :: e-mail : rhl@cm.cf.ac.uk Fax : 0222 371921 :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. -D.N.H. Bohr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) (01/16/91)
rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill) writes: >A question that may be answered by the OBIOS draft specification, but isn't >obvious to me is.. >who will write the device dependent routines for various devices, >will it be the device manufacturers or OS writers.. The way I read it, the device manufacturers would be the main source. With their own hardware they would include an OBIOS compliant driver, which should work with any OS supporting the OBIOS software interface. For very common devices, there would eventually be driver libraries available from say, ftp sites or the OS supplier (which is often true now; but then, common devices aren't the problem :). kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>