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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- GS/OS
- #6: Drivers and GS/OS Direct Page
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- Revised by: Dave Lyons July 1989
- Written by: Matt Deatherage March 1989
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- This Technical Note corrects an error in the preliminary GS/OS documentation
- and provides an alternate suggestion for developers who are writing GS/OS
- drivers.
- Changes since March 1989: Added information about setting the D register
- before making system service calls and documented that the GS/OS direct page
- is now guaranteed to remain the same between Driver_StartUp and
- Driver_ShutDown calls.
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- Preliminary GS/OS documentation, including the beta draft of GS/OS Reference,
- Volume 2, incorrectly states that locations $5A through $5F are available for
- device drivers, and that locations $66 through $6B are shared by device
- drivers and supervisory drivers (and may be corrupted by either a driver or
- supervisory driver call).
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- This is not correct. The locations in question are used by GS/OS; destroying
- these locations can cause system failure and media corruption.
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- Drivers which require direct page space of their own should request it from
- the Memory Manager when they are started. Upon receiving a call, a driver can
- save the value of the D register (containing the GS/OS direct page) and switch
- to its own direct page. The driver may keep the value of its direct page
- inside the driver itself; no space on GS/OS direct page is available for this
- purpose. The driver must restore the D register to point to the GS/OS direct
- page before returning from the call, and it should also dispose of its direct
- page space when it shuts down.
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- The driver must also set the D register to point to the GS/OS direct page
- before making any system service call other than SET_SPEED and
- DYN_SLOT_ARBITER.
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- Note: The location of the GS/OS direct page is guaranteed to
- remain the same between Driver_StartUp and Driver_ShutDown calls.
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- Further Reference
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- o GS/OS Reference, Volume 2