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From: ag@floyd.ATT.COM
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Subject: Assembling Device Drivers/Descriptors
Keywords: asm driver descriptor
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Date: 16 Mar 89 22:57:20 GMT
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(My apologies to Pete Lyall and Mike Knudsen for posting parts of
something I just e-mailed to them...)

I finally got asm last night.  And I'm $40 poorer.  But now I have a better
chance of doing device drivers.

Still getting error #257, or out of system-space RAM.  Don't know why or
how, but adjusting the size of my stack doesn't seem to have any effect
on the error.  I tried putting some printing code in my device driver
init section to see when the error #257 occurs.  Didn't even get to it.
It seems to happen when the system does the I$Attach call, before it
even does the init part of my device driver.

Somehow, I don't have any more room in my system memory.  Mfree says
I've got 176k left.  I'm guessing the system memory limitation is 64K,
same as any other process.

Any suggestions, anyone?

Ag Primatic
ag@floyd.ATT.com