Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Re: RTC's OBIOS / who's going to write the code, availability, cost Message-ID: <1991Jan16.150743.24319@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 16 Jan 91 15:07:43 GMT References: <1991Jan16.110509.7886@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 15 rhl@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Robert Hartill) writes: >A question that may be answered by the OBIOS draft specification, but isn't >obvious to me is.. >who will write the device dependent routines for various devices, >will it be the device manufacturers or OS writers.. The way I read it, the device manufacturers would be the main source. With their own hardware they would include an OBIOS compliant driver, which should work with any OS supporting the OBIOS software interface. For very common devices, there would eventually be driver libraries available from say, ftp sites or the OS supplier (which is often true now; but then, common devices aren't the problem :). kevin