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What This Guide Contains

This guide is divided into the following major parts.

Part I, "IRIX Device Integration"How devices are attached to Silicon Graphics computers, configured to IRIX, and initialized at boot time.
Part II, "Device Control From Process Space"Details of user-level interrupt handling, programmed I/O of VME and EISA devices, SCSI control using dslib, and external interrupts.
Part III, "Kernel-Level Drivers"How kernel-level drivers are designed, compiled, loaded, and tested. Survey of kernel services for drivers.
Part IV, "VME Device Drivers"Kernel-level drivers for the VME bus.
Part V, "SCSI Device Drivers"Kernel-level drivers for the SCSI bus.
Part VI, "Network Drivers"Kernel-level drivers for network interfaces.
Part VII, "EISA Drivers"Kernel-level drivers for the EISA bus.
Part VIII, "GIO Drivers"Kernel-level drivers for the GIO bus.
Part IX, "STREAMS Drivers"Design of STREAMS drivers.

In the printed book, you can locate these parts using the part-tabs printed in the margins. Using IRIX Insight(TM), each part is a top-level division in the clickable table of contents, or you can jump to any part by clicking the blue cross-references in the list above.



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