Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Michelle Knight
There was a time where I understood the 8086 architecture quite well. I had Peter Norton's books and even wrote in Pascal and 8086 assembler taking over the graphics subsystems - http://msknight.com/index.php?page=221 - don't ask me what that code does now, though. I haven't got a clue. A numbe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Reginald Beardsley
, you still need to learn gcc/gdb :-( C is quite simple if you understand hardware. C++ is a whole other story :-( --- On Sun, 2/6/11, Michelle Knight wrote: > From: Michelle Knight > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndia

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Michelle Knight
Thanks very much folks; much appreciated. I think that it was high time that I became conversant with C; although from what I've been reading, I don't think there is any chance of me becoming to the level required to write drivers I need this side of 2012. Someone e-mailed me directly and sugge

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Dmitry G. Kozhinov
To write a device driver, one also needs a deep technical documentation from the device manufacturer. On 07.02.2011 1:19, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Google shows the following http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/819-3159/819-3159.pdf A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Reginald Beardsley
>From the looks of things at Highpoint, writing a driver appears to be a pretty >grim undertaking. The "open source" code doesn't appear to include all the >source. I notice in some searching on pricewatch.com that the Sabrent SBT-SRD4 which sells for ~ $30US is based on an Sil3114 which appe

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Google shows the following http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/819-3159/819-3159.pdf A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:57:30 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >This also works and is probably more germane to Indiana. > >http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/819-3159/index.html Only the table of contents works, every hyperlink on it to the underlying pages ends in a 404 though. -- ( Kees Nuy

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Reginald Beardsley
This also works and is probably more germane to Indiana. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/819-3159/index.html --- On Sun, 2/6/11, Michelle Knight wrote: > From: Michelle Knight > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers > To: "Discussion list f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Reginald Beardsley
This works. The PDF appears to be dead, but I didn't investigate. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/817-5789/drivertut1/index.html --- On Sun, 2/6/11, Michelle Knight wrote: > From: Michelle Knight > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers > T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Edward Martinez
On 02/06/11 09:50, Michelle Knight wrote: Thanks Albert, Thanks Edward, A lot of those links, especially to the Device Driver Tutorial and the article on Writing Device Drivers just go to dead Oracle menu pages - I did find a new page - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server- storage/solaris/d

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Michelle Knight
Thanks Albert, Thanks Edward, A lot of those links, especially to the Device Driver Tutorial and the article on Writing Device Drivers just go to dead Oracle menu pages - I did find a new page - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server- storage/solaris/documentation/index-jsp-137900.html but tha

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Edward Martinez
On 02/06/11 08:37, Michelle Knight wrote: Hi Folks, How do I watch for if anyone is working on a driver for the Rocket 622? Or, how do I start learning about writing drivers please? Many thanks, Michelle. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenInd

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Albert Lee
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Michelle Knight wrote: > Hi Folks, > > How do I watch for if anyone is working on a driver for the Rocket 622? > > Or, how do I start learning about writing drivers please? > > Many thanks, > > Michelle. illumos is the project you should be involved in for driver

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

2011-02-06 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi Folks, How do I watch for if anyone is working on a driver for the Rocket 622? Or, how do I start learning about writing drivers please? Many thanks, Michelle. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindi