Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:53:07 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: stesin@gu.net, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently? Message-ID: <199707270712.AAA21526@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199707270509.LAA25603@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Jul 27, 97 11:09:08 am
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In some mail from Serge A. Babkin, sie said: > > > 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. mmm, DDI & DDK. Darren
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