Revision as of 16:39, 17 June 2012

This article contains a selection of frequently asked questions and is intended to be used by anyone who is writing or planning to write OS/2 device drivers.

Support Categories

Situations when it is (un)necessary to write an OS/2 device driver

Is a driver necessary to use IRQs

Is a driver necessary to access I/O ports

Is a driver necessary to access memory on an adapter card

Accessing Video Ram

Application Issues

compiling and building your OS/2 device driver

Initialising the driver for the first time

Start of operations

Using Request Packets

A collection of commonly asked questions about the IOCTL interface

Defining and Using Semaphores

How the stack works

Using DMA

Defining and Using memory

32 Bit issues compiling/linking/running

How time works

Using interrupts

Shutting down OS/2 gracefully

What differences are there between the versions of OS/2

Debugging tips, tricks and treats

A collection of tools & information on tools for device driver authors

General useful information and support

Other sources of information and support

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