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From: saw@electric.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Shaun Wilde)
Subject: BSD Drivers
Message-ID: <1994Jun2.090518.25575@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Keywords: interfacing, devices
Sender: saw@electric (Shaun Wilde)
Nntp-Posting-Host: electric
Organization: Nottingham University
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 09:05:18 GMT
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At present we have a DSP card mounted in a PC which we use as a server
for our laboratory. We are looking to installing the 386BSD system, however
only if it is possible to write a simple? device driver for the DSP card.
At the moment we download DSP code using the 'outport' C command, and then
transmit and receive data using 'outport' and 'inport'.
Would it be easy to convert our code to run under 386BSD, preferably as a
background process. This will aid us greatly as we tend to have problems with
non-competent users modifying the PC executables, hence the need for a
super-user style system.
386BSD also seems an ideal solution as we run PC-NFS and therefore we could
have in-lab print servers and CD-ROMS etc.
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