Category:Driver Articles

EDM/2 Wiki Articles

• Sugestion for OS/2 and eComstation Drivers Arguments by Martín Itúrbide (July 2011)
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• OS/2 Device Drivers for Dummies by Mike Greene (May 2007)
• SMP Considerations for OS/2 Device Drivers by Scott E. Garfinkle (January 1999)
• HPFS - High Performance File System by Hartmut Frommert
• High Resolution Timing under OS/2 by Timur Tabi (January 1998)
• OS/2's Symmetrical Multiprocessing Demystified by Ted Waldron III (September 1997)
• SMP - Symmetrical Multiprocessing by Ivan Skytte Jørgensen (July 1997)
• The HPFS FAQ by Les Bell (March 1997)
• From Hello World to Real World by Alger Pike
  • Part 1 (September 1996)
  • Part 2 (October 1996)
  • Part 3 (November 1996)
  • Part 4 (December 1996)
  • Part 5 (January 1997)
  • Part 6 (February 1997)
• How to do port I/O (IN/OUT) from OS/2 by Stefan Zollner (1997)
• Fast (500 kHz) analog-to-digital conversion in OS/2 using the CIO-DAS16/M1 by Stefan Zollner (1997)
• Accessing the CIO-DAC02 Digital-to-Analog converter from Computerboards, Inc. by Stefan Zollner (1997)
• Digital Input/Output in OS/2 by Stefan Zollner (1997)
• 32-bit port I/O using the TESTCFG.SYS device driver by Stefan Zollner (1997)
• Object-oriented programming examples for the GPIB (IEEE-488) bus by Stefan Zollner (1997)
• OS/2 Device Driver Frequently Asked Questions by Tim Snape (17th Dec 1996)
• OS/2 High Performance File System by Les Bell (September 1996)
• Writing Device Drivers - Multiple Segments by Steve Mastrianni (May 1995)
• KEYBOARD.DCP File Format by Martin Lafaix (March 1995)
• Writing Device Drivers - Plug and Play Basics by Steve Mastrianni (December 1994)
• Writing Device Drivers - A Brief Look at OS/2 SMP by Steve Mastrianni (September 1994)
• Writing Device Drivers - Getting the Most out of OS/2 by Steve Mastrianni (June 1994)
• Writing Device Drivers - Where to Start? by Steve Mastrianni (November 1993)
• OS/2 Installable File Systems by Andre Asselin
  • Part 1 (May/June 1993)
  • Part 2 (October 1993)
  • Part 3 (December 1993)
• Confessions of a DDK Developer by Steve Mastrianni (July 1993)
• OS/2 Presentation Drivers in a Nutshell by Dave Raymer (April 1993)
• Writing Device Drivers - Interrupts by Steve Mastrianni (March 1993)
• Introduction to IOPL programming by Roger Orr (December 1992)
• OS/2 Development Tools Arrive - Finally by Steve Mastrianni (October 1992)
• Programming direct OS/2 Disk I/O by Roger Orr (April 1992)
• SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: OS/2 Device Drivers by Steve Mastrianni (July 1991)
• Tales from the Trenches by Steve Mastrianni by Steve Mastrianni (Nov 1990)
• OS/2 initialisation - making it work for you by Roger Orr (August 1990)

EDM/2 Classic Articles

• A Project to Replace OS2LDR by David C. Zimmerli (September 1999)
• OS2LDR and OS2KRNL-- The Secret Handshake by David C. Zimmerli (April 1999)
• A Note on the OS/2 Warp Boot Sequence by David C. Zimmerli (January 1999)
• Inside the OS/2 Kernel by David C. Zimmerli (July 1998)
• The Case of the Invisible Corpse by Dennis Sposato (October 1997)
• ICAT: The New Remote Source-code Debugger for OS/2 by Chris Matthews and Dave Evans (May 1997)
• Inside the High Performance File System by Dan Bridges (April 1997)
  • Part 1 - Preface (November 1996)
  • Part 2 - Introduction (December 1996)
  • Part 3 - The SuperBlock and the SpareBlock (January 1997)
  • Part 4 - Fragmentation, Diskspace Bitmaps and Code Pages (February 1997)
  • Part 5 - B-Trees, DIRBLKs, and DIRENTs (March 1997)
  • Part 6 - FNODEs, ALSECs and B+trees (April 1997)
• Adventures in Kernel Debugging by David C. Zimmerli (November 1996)
• 32-Bit I/O With Warp Speed by Holger Veit (August 1995)

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External Articles

• Building USB drivers from the DDK Sources by Julio Cezar Salguerio da Silva (October 16, 2002)
• Introduction To Device Driver Programming by Peter Skye
• A split model for OS/2 SCSI device drivers - IBM systems journal by Dan T Feriozi (1992)
• A C programming model for OS/2 device drivers - IBM systems journal by Dan T Feriozi (1991)
• [Modifying Your PM Programs for Pen for OS/2] by Vera Dulaney and Kevin Lee

Public Resources

• IFS.INF - OS/2 Installable File Systems by IBM
• DISPLAY.INF - Display Device Driver Reference for OS/2 by IBM
• GRADD.INF - Graphics Adapter Device Driver Reference by IBM
• MMPM2.INF - MMPM/2 Device Driver Reference by IBM
• PDDREF.INF - Physical Device Driver Reference by IBM
• PDRREF.INF - Presentation Device Driver Reference for OS/2 by IBM
• STORAGE.INF - Storage Device Driver Reference by IBM
• Writing OS/2 2.1 Device Drivers in C Unreleased 3rd Edition - ISBN 0442017294, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997. by Steve Mastrianni
• A flat model device driver for OS/2 by Steve Mastrianni (September 1997)
• The Guide to Os/2 Warp Device Drivers - IBM RedBooks - ISBN 0738407119, 9780738407111 - First Edition (December 1995) (December 1995)
• IBM OS/2 2.0 Kernel Debugger by IBM, David E. Reich, Edd Doutre (September 14, 1992)
• The design of OS/2 by Harvey M. Deitel and Michael S. Kogan (1992)
• Inside OS/2 by Gordon Letwin (February 1988)

Presentations

• Uniaud: Internals and History (download) by David Azarewicz (Warpstock Europe 2011)
• Experimental USB Board Velleman K8055, (download) by Björn Hennig and Uwe Hinz (Warpstock Europe 2011)
• K8055 with eCS, USB accessed from Python / Pyrex, (download) by Björn Hennig and Uwe Hinz (Warpstock Europe 2010)
• OS/2 USB Stack development Guidelines, (download) by Vladimirs Zinovjevs (Developers Workshop 2005)
• Supporting USB WebCams in OS/2, (download) by Vladyslav Stelmakhovskyy (Developers Workshop 2005)
• Creating an OS/2 IEEE 1394 - Firewire driver, (download part 1), (download part 2) by Alexandr Cherkaev (Developers Workshop 2005)
• USB from Ring 3, (download) by Markus Montkowski (WarpStock 2001)
• Developing a USB Driver, (download) by Markus Montkowski (WarpStock 2001)
• USB: Whats that? A general intro into USB, (download) by Markus Montkowski (WarpStock 2001)

Retail Books

• Writing OS/2 device drivers - Addison-Wesley, 1989 by Raymond Westwater
• Writing Os/2 2.1 Device Drivers in C - John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1995 by Steve Mastrianni
• The design of OS/2 - Addison-Wesley, 1992 by Harvey M. Deitel and Michael S. Kogan
• Programming the OS/2 Kernel - Prentice Hall, 1991 by J. Terry Godfrey
• Advanced OS/2 programming: the microsoft guide to the OS/2 kernel for assembly language and C programmers - Microsoft Press, 1989 by Ray Duncan

Patents

• High performance file system