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From: saadi@bustan.greenie.muc.de (Rudolf Schreiner)
Subject: Re: Info on device driver programming needed
Message-ID: <DI3AHw.2oy@bustan.greenie.muc.de>
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References: <87ohur79ci.fsf@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> <47q89d$aji@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <hm.816249742@hcswork.hcs.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:49:08 GMT
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In article <hm.816249742@hcswork.hcs.de> hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:

>	George Pajari, "Writing Unix Device Drivers"
>		Addison Wesley 1992

The "simple" book. :-)#
The examples are far away from production code. 
It covers SCO, nothing about BSD. Good introduction.

>	Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver"
>		John Wiley & Sons 1988

IMHO almost useless.

>	Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver"
>		Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons 1992

Many errors. Sometimes I had the impression that the authors never had seen
the source of a real device driver.

>	Phillip M. Adams, Clovis L. Tondo, "Writing Unix Device Drivers in C",
>		Prentice Hall 1993

Covers SCO.

>	Berny Goodheart, James Cox, "The Magic Garden Explained",
>		Prentice Hall 1994

Helpful for understanding STREAMS.

Rudi
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