KBDBASE.SYS: Difference between revisions

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The keyboard base device driver (KBDBASE.SYS) is one of the two separated drivers for the keyboard physical device driver. KDBBASE.SYS is referred as the "device-independent driver" that handles the monitors, screen groups, code paging, translation and special needs processing. This device driver communicates any hardware change with the "device-dependent" driver (IBMKBD.SYS) using an IDS (inter-device-driver communication) interface.

Note: This is one of the critical drivers for the OS/2 Kernel.

Versions

Date	Version	Size	Comments
2000-04-17		16,200 bytes	Beta KBDBASE.SYS driver for C-A-D Commander 2.5.3
2007-06-15	10.70	24,989 bytes	By IBM. 101 Keyboard Device Driver-SMP

DLLs Loaded

DOSCALL1.DLL

Source Code

The source code of this file is included on the IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kit for OS/2. It can not be open sourced, but the source code is available from IBM DDK and a free/paid binaries can be released.

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-==Description==
+The keyboard base device driver (KBDBASE.SYS) is one of the two separated drivers for the keyboard physical device driver. KDBBASE.SYS is referred as the "device-independent driver" that handles the monitors, screen groups, code paging, translation and special needs processing.  This device driver communicates any hardware change with the "device-dependent" driver ([[IBMKBD.SYS]]) using an IDS (inter-device-driver communication) interface.
-This is the keyboard base device driver for OS/2 and eComStation.
+;Note: This is one of the critical drivers for the [[OS/2 Kernel]].
 ==Versions==
 {| class="wikitable"
+!Date||Version||Size||Comments
 |-
-! Date !!Version !! Size  !! Comments
+|2000-04-17|| ||16,200 bytes||Beta KBDBASE.SYS driver for C-A-D Commander 2.5.3
-|-
-| 2007/Jun/15 2:26pm || 10.70 || 24,989 bytes || By IBM. 101 Keyboard Device Driver-SMP.
-|-
-| 2000/April/17 16:12:38|| N/A || 16,200 bytes || [http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-viewer.php?dir=/pub/os2/dev/drivers&file=cadcmdr_kbdbase.zip Beta KBDBASE.SYS] driver for C-A-D Commander 2.5.3
 |-
+|2007-06-15||10.70||24,989 bytes||By IBM. 101 Keyboard Device Driver-SMP
 |}
+==DLLs Loaded==
+* [[DOSCALL1.DLL]]
 ==Source Code==
-The source code of this file is included on the [[IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kits for OS/2]]. It can not be open sourced, but the source code is available for IBM DDK customers and a free/paid binaries can be released.
+The source code of this file is included on the [[IBM Developer Connection Device Driver Kit for OS/2]]. It can not be open sourced, but the source code is available from IBM DDK and a free/paid binaries can be released.
-[[Category:Files]]
+[[Category:Character Device Drivers]]