Tru64 Device Driver Kit Release 2 (for versions 5.0-5.1B)

[kobylka]

Looking for this kit for years without any luck. Does anybody know where to get this from? Device driver development under Tru64 is not possible w/o this kit.

[Upstate Rob]

http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/dept/docs/manuals/unix/DEC_5.0a_Docs/HTML/ARH8RBTE/FLLDCSTC.HTM

As this points out in section 5, they were provided separately by DEC, so it seems you really need to find the CD from someone with a set of Alphas running Tru64.  I have a bunch, but I am not on-site to find any CDs.  While I did do some initialization work from a CD, I do not think it had this Device Driver stuff on it.  Seems a bit late in the life of Tru64 to be writing device drivers.

[kobylka]

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@Upstate Rob wrote:

http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/dept/docs/manuals/unix/DEC_5.0a_Docs/HTML/ARH8RBTE/FLLDCSTC.HTM

As this points out in section 5, they were provided separately by DEC, so it seems you really need to find the CD from someone with a set of Alphas running Tru64.

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Absolutely.

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@Upstate Rob wrote:
I have a bunch, but I am not on-site to find any CDs. 

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@Upstate Rob wrote:
Seems a bit late in the life of Tru64 to be writing device drivers.

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Actually I´m looking for this kit since 2008: fan forums like Nekochan, user groups, former itrc, contacted HP sales agents... no luck.

I believe there are two reasons for this: first, device driver programming is a very special field of operating systems (time consuming, costly, very complex) and second, as you pointed out, in the case of Tru64 it was made accessible as a separately orderable kit. No other closed source OS I have toyed with has this arrangement (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, OpenVMS, ...).

But I'll keep trying, and I know that some day I will be coding my first "Hello World"-pseudo driver on my "little" ES40 :-)

Thanks for replying and have a nice day,

Kobylka