PDDREF:OS/2 Version Compatibility Considerations

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Physical Device Driver Reference
  1. Introduction
  2. Physical Device Driver Overview
  3. Physical Device Driver Architecture and Structure
  4. OS/2 Physical Device Driver Operations
  5. OS/2 Physical Device Driver Design Issues
  6. Character Device Monitors
  7. Installation of External Loadable Device Drivers
  8. Physical Device Driver Strategy Commands
  9. Device Helper (DevHlp) Services
  10. Resource Management
  11. Linking Resource Manager Services
  12. Generic IOCtl Commands
Appendixes
OS/2 Version Compatibility Considerations
Running OS/2 Version 1.3 16-Bit PDDs on OS/2
Using Advanced Bios
Notices
Glossary

The following table lists new information that has been added or changed to this documentation, beginning with Warp, Version 3.0. Moreover, when writing a device driver, you will want to take into consideration these particular changes that can affect the compatibility of these items.

Item Added or Changed Date Item was Added
or Changed
Compatible with Version
Resource Manager enhancements 6/96 OS/2 Warp, Beta Version 99.99 and higher
Strategy Command BaseDevInit (SC1bh) was added 6/95 OS/2 Warp
Resource Manager 12/94 OS/2 Warp, Version 3.0
C-datatypes have been added to IOCtls 8/94 OS/2 Warp, Version 3.0
IOCtls have been changed to #defined constants. 8/94 OS/2 Warp, Version 3.0