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To: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, stesin@gu.net
From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently?
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At 11:09 AM 7/27/97 +0600, Serge A. Babkin wrote:
>> 	And they have some kind of "unified driver interface" spec for UW.
>> 	How nice would it be -- to have an ability to use hardware
>> 	vendor's own drivers for UW, compatible with that spec,
>> 	just out of the box.  Aaghh, dreams, dreams... :(
>
>About the driver interface. They have the document named "Device Driver
>Interface", the current version (that will be implemented in SCO
>Gemini) is DDI 8. A good thing is this documents descripts not only
>the calls that driver must support but the functions it can use too.
>It is made to allow to link the drivers with compliance to different
>levels of DDI simultaneously. The linking is dynamic, the function
>names are substituted to reflect the DDI level. This has
>one important consequence: all you need to link in the SVR4
>drivers is to have the DDI-compliant in-kernel library and
>a SVR4->BSD object file format converter. Of course, you'll
>need STREAMS to use the SVR4 network drivers.
>
>-SB

What about DLPI? And (I'm sorry, i missed the beginning of this
thread), what are we talking about? SCO, Univel, Solaris?

dennis
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