[Info-vax] X86 first boot? - A Really Stupid Question

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-03-29, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> So, if many of the device drivers have been re-written by VSI, perhaps 
> they could make them available.  Whether they would do so is another 
> question.

Something more than the existing LRDRIVER would be nice. :-)

>  Whether they could or would make documentation available so 
> third parties could write drivers might be a good question.
>

That's actually a rather good question.

When people write drivers for Itanium VMS at the moment, what information
sources do they use ?

Is the Writing OpenVMS Alpha Device Drivers in C book still the starting
point for Itanium ?

My copy of that book says Copyright (c) 1996 Digital Equipment Corporation.
Is there a later version of that book ?

Will the information in that book still be applicable for x86-64 VMS
or will there need to be (and if so, will there actually be) another
version of that book ?

Thanks,

Simon.

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