[openbeos] Re: Automatic hardware installation / system updates
- From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathanw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:41:24 -0500 CDT
Is there some overview somewhere of how to write drivers that use the
new architecture, and what the new architecture is, exactly?
-Nathan
> mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > What about appending attributes to each driver, for example PCI
> > > and Vendor ID...that could at least solve this problem...right?
> > No one has this information except the driver and (maybe) the PCI
> > bus
> > manager, AFAIK.
>
> Note, this will be done differently in Haiku - for the drivers that
> use
> the new driver architecture, it knows exactly which driver servers
> which device and hardware (and vice versa).
> In R5 there is also this ioctl(): B_GET_DRIVER_FOR_DEVICE
> Haven't tested it yet, but it's supposed to return the path to the
> driver for a specific device.
>
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
>
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