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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel device driver template?
Date: 2 Oct 94 15:12:21 GMT
Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines)
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Message-ID: <hart.781110741@apanix.apana.org.au>
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j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>>Leigh Hart (hart@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote:

>[looking for a driver template so he could hack a framegrabber driver]

>jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:

>>	If it's interrupt driven and can handle DMA transfers,
>>	see my FDC driver at:

>8----) :-] :-O

>(Btw., Jesus, he clearly described the basic functionality of his hardware!
>It should have become apparent that it is *miles* away from an FDC.)

Particularly considering I explicitly stated that it used simple two-byte
(control/data) IO "nothing fancy" I believe were the words :-)

Cheers

Leigh
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| "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart                |
|  from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> |
|  began to suspect 'Hungry' ..."  | C/- 195 Gilles Street     |
|   -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide  SA  5006        |