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PART TWO: Device Control From Process Space


Chapter 4: User-Level Access to VME and EISA
How a user-level process can access and control devices on the VME and EISA buses.

Chapter 5: User-Level Access to SCSI Devices
How a user-level process can execute commands and transfer data to a SCSI device.

Chapter 6: Control of External Interrupts
How a user-level process creates or responds to external interrupt signals in the Challenge and Power Challenge systems.

Chapter 7: User-Level Interrupts
How a user-level process can trap and respond to device interrupts with low latency and the fewest context switches.



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