Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Help: Device driver from Xenix within Unix... Keywords: kernal xenix unix help Message-ID: <.4:4IV@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 3 Aug 90 16:12:29 GMT References: <1585@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <1585@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au> marcb@eyrie.img.uu.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma [Tau]) writes: >Is it possible to link a Xenix device driver into the Unix kernal? Probably not without recompiling. See 3-77 of the Integrated Software Development Guide. There are a number of differences between the Xenix and UNIX kernel environment spelled out, some of which are likely to effect any driver I can think of (well, maybe you could implement a "null" device that was portable :->). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`