Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:59:48 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, stesin@gu.net Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970727115943.006dad5c@etinc.com>
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At 11:09 AM 7/27/97 +0600, Serge A. Babkin wrote: >> And they have some kind of "unified driver interface" spec for UW. >> How nice would it be -- to have an ability to use hardware >> vendor's own drivers for UW, compatible with that spec, >> just out of the box. Aaghh, dreams, dreams... :( > >About the driver interface. They have the document named "Device Driver >Interface", the current version (that will be implemented in SCO >Gemini) is DDI 8. A good thing is this documents descripts not only >the calls that driver must support but the functions it can use too. >It is made to allow to link the drivers with compliance to different >levels of DDI simultaneously. The linking is dynamic, the function >names are substituted to reflect the DDI level. This has >one important consequence: all you need to link in the SVR4 >drivers is to have the DDI-compliant in-kernel library and >a SVR4->BSD object file format converter. Of course, you'll >need STREAMS to use the SVR4 network drivers. > >-SB What about DLPI? And (I'm sorry, i missed the beginning of this thread), what are we talking about? SCO, Univel, Solaris? dennis >
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