Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!ames!mailrus!utah-gr!utah-cs!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!mybest!moray!siswat!buck
From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Driver design manual from ATT for 3b2...
Summary: how about System V/VME Driver Design Guide?
Message-ID: <323@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 21:35:51 GMT
References: <2253@cadovax.UUCP>
Organization: Photon Graphics, Houston
Lines: 19

In article <2253@cadovax.UUCP>, mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner) writes:
> Does anybody know how I can get the Driver Design Guide for 3b2s from
> ATT? 

When I searched the documentation lists from AT&T, all I ever found
was the "UNIX System V/VME Driver Design Guide", #307-771 Issue 1,
copyright 1986.  I paid about $60 for it.  It is very helpful, but
you must read through some VME specific stuff at times.

Much more cost effective is "Writing a UNIX Device Driver" by
Egan and Teixeira for $25.00 from Wiley.  Again must read through
MASSCOMP RTU specific details for generic Unix behavior.

Caveat: I have used these books to make small adjustments in some
existing drivers, but I have never written anything from scratch.

-- 
A. Lester Buck		...!uunet!nuchat!moray!siswat!buck