Chapter 9: Managing Device Interactions

• "Device Drivers" summarizes the role that device drivers play in the IRIX system, and points to sources for information on how you can write a device driver.

• "SCSI Devices" describes the facilities of the dslib package, with which you can write code to control SCSI devices directly.

• "The VME Bus" describes two methods for accessing the most popular interface for real-time devices.

• "Serial Ports" summarizes the use of serial ports for real-time input and output.

• "External Interrupts" summarizes the facilities offered by the External Interrupt device driver.

Device Drivers

SCSI Devices

The VME Bus

Serial Ports

External Interrupts