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From: lm@arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: device driver book
Message-ID: <4326@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 88 22:38:40 GMT
References: <4753@gorbash.Rosemount.COM>
Reply-To: lm@megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy)
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
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In article <4753@gorbash.Rosemount.COM> dave@gorbash.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) writes:
>I was browsing in B. Dalton Software Etc. tonight and came across a book about 
>writing UNIX device drivers by Egan and Teixeira, published by Wiley.  Has
>anybody else seen or read this book?  Any recommendations?
>
>	Dave

Yeah, I've seen it it (I own a copy).  It's a shame that they made it so
Masscomp specific.  I'd guess that these people have written drivers
almost exclusively under RTU; they take a stab at being general but I
got the feeling that a lot of stuff slipped through the cracks.  No 
examples come to mind, but the feeling remains.  Anyway, even if the book
is complete it's a bit on the long (i.e., verbose) side.

Possible other (maybe better) sources of info:

* The ATT Device Driver Writer's Guide (I like this one a lot; but I've only
  written SysV drivers)
* The Sun Driver info in their standard dist manuals (at least I think it's
  the there; I've seen it - if you can't find it ask Sun).
-- 

Larry McVoy	lm@arizona.edu or ...!{uwvax,sun}!arizona.edu!lm