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- From: dp@natinst.com (Debapriya Ray)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Configuring Device Drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.160600.25038@natinst.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:06:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: natinst.1992Jul30.160600.25038
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- Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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- Hi folks !
-
- I am writing a device driver in VMS for one of our boards. Usually
- we have a couple of boards and a bunch of devices connected to them. In case
- of our UNIX drivers for similar boards, we have a program to configure the
- driver dynamically, i.e, we can change board/device addresses, change
- interrupt levels, and some other parameters on the fly. The way this is
- done is by opening the executable driver-file and writing into the .exe
- code.
-
- My question is: How are VMS drivers configured ? Is there any way at
- all of configuring VMS drivers ? Or, everything has to be hard-wired into the
- driver code itself before assembly (which is not what we want) ? If you guys,
- know of any scheme, I'll appreciate it very much if you can pass on the
- information to me. In case you have any further questions, please email me
- at: dp@natinst.com.
-
- I'll be glad if you can send emails to me (additionally, if you wish
- to post on the net, its fine), since I am not a regular reader of this
- newsgroup.
-
- Thanks a lot for your help,
-
- Debapriya Ray
-
- email: dp@natinst.com
- National Instr, Austin
-