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Article #4945Seeking help with Ultrix devices
From: Robert Talley
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 16:10
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1988 16:10
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I would like to be able to map a small portion of the Q-bus I/O page
into a user process so that I can directly control a device on the bus.
In checking through the Ultrix documentation, I have found that the
'ik' device driver (in the unsupported subsets) does this so that
the user can eliminate the I/O overhead through the kernel.
What I would like to know is, can anyone point me in the right direction
to obtain information on the kernel calls and/or functions required to
do this. Eventually I would like to write a device driver that also
incorporates device interrupt handling, but just being able to map the
device registers into my process will suffice for now.
Of course I do not have a source license and am quite the neophyte when it
comes to device drivers. I would really appreciate any experiences, tips,
warnings, and/or examples that anyone could provide.
My environment is: DEC uVAX-I/II systems
Ultrix v1.2 and/or 2.0[2]
An example device is the DRV11-J (or equivilent register structure)
PLEASE EMAIL RESPONSES. I will summarize if requested.
Thank you in advance for sharing your knowlege.
Robert Talley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!alxfin!robert From: robert@alxfin.UUCP (Robert Talley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Seeking help with Ultrix devices Message-ID: <246@alxfin.UUCP> Date: 24 Mar 88 16:10:02 GMT Organization: Alexander Financial Svcs., Apopka,FL Lines: 35 Keywords: ultrix device-drivers kernel help