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From: kerch@reynaldo.PARC.Xerox.Com (Berry Kercheval)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Where can I find documentation on Kernel functions
Date: 29 Dec 1993 21:11:52 GMT
Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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Message-ID: <KERCH.93Dec29131152@reynaldo.PARC.Xerox.Com>
References: <2fd2mi$qlc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
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In-reply-to: Glen Schaff's message of 23 Dec 1993 21:30:58 GMT
>>>>> "Glen" == Glen Schaff <glens@space.mit.edu> writes:
In article <2fd2mi$qlc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Glen Schaff <glens@space.mit.edu> writes:
Glen> I am trying to enhance a device driver and have have not
Glen> been able to find documentation on many of the kernel
Glen> function calls. "man" does not have them. I have found one
Glen> book, AT&T's device driver reference which covers about half
Glen> of the calls. However, functions such as getlongprop(),
Glen> map_regs(), addintr(), etc I cannot find. If you know of
Glen> documentation or a book that covers these I would greatly
Glen> apreciate the info.
It sounds to me that Glen is caught in one of the saddest traps of
binary-only distributions. He can no longer go and read the source
code for getlongprop(), map_regs() to see what they do, but the
OS suppliers don't supply adequate documentation.
Now, given that Glen is at MIT, they may actually have a source
license for whatever OS he is using. Glen should talk to his local
wizards for information about this.
--berry
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Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com
"...start with Plan 9, which is free of sin..." -Mark V. Shaney