Re: Newbie Roadmap?

[Horst von Brand]

Howard Owen <hbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've embarked on a project to write device drivers for an obscure and
> rare ISA card. It's a modern version of the HP 82973 HP-IL interface
> produced by Cristoph Klug. HP-IL was a bit-serial, dog-slow version of
> HP-IB (IEEE-488) that was designed to work with the HP-41C family of
> calculators, and later with the HP-71 and HP-85. The 41C calculators are
> my hobby interest. I'd like to introduce myself, and ask for pointers
> for a newbie device driver author.

As you say later you have stuff working in userland under DOSEMU (and the
"dog slow" part), I'd suggest a userspace driver. It is probably easier to
work with, and has the advantage that you can run it under the bog-standard
$DISTRO kernel with some care, no patching/reconfiguring/rebuilding to be
done.

[No, I'm just an old hand here; no expert of any sort. Good luck!]
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