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From: walter@etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Reiner Walter)
Subject: Re: BSD/386 device driver
Message-ID: <1992Jul5.110138.21087@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Keywords: driver
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Organization: Institut fuer Nachrichtensysteme, Uni Karlsruhe
References:  <1992Jul1.132543.5833@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1992 11:01:38 GMT
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In article <1992Jul1.132543.5833@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, walter@etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Reiner Walter) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> I want to port a device driver from INTERACTIVE to BSD/386.
|> 
|> The driver from INTERACTIVE uses the 'u.' structure like u.u_count,u.u_base,
|> u.u_offset ... .
|> BSD/386 uses the 'uio' structure.
|> I couldn't find any book which describes this 'uio' structure.
|> Can anybody suggest me some books which describe this structure and which
|> describe how to write device drivers for BSD/386 or how to port device drivers
|> from INTERACTIVE to BSD.
|> 
|> Thank you for your answer!
|> 
|> I havn't yet a mail access. Please post the answer under 'BSD/386 driver'
|> in the 'com.unix.bsd' group.
|> ~
|> 
|>