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
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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