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Re: Writing trivial device drivers - documentation? help?????

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From: Kenneth A. Kahn
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:41
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In <1992Nov13.002029.1824@msc.cornell.edu> Mike Thompson writes:
>some minimal examples of device drivers, but no real documentation.  Can
>someone tell me where to get adequate documentation to write a trivial device
>driver (it will be really stupid).  Book suggestions?  Pay for more software
>from IBM?
>
>Second request: Does anyone have an example device driver (in masm) fully
>functional they would make available to me.  I need examples of DevHlp calls
>to get mapping of physical memory.  Any help most greatly appreciated.
>

Get a copy of "Writing OS/2 2.0 Device Drivers in C" by Steve Mastrianni.
He has a *lot* of examples including a sample Device Driver.  If you have
access to Compuserve, he has uploaded a copy of the DISK with all the examples
to the OS2SUPPORT library.
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From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
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