How to write an Ultrix device driver

[George Robbins]

In article <11371 at s.ms.uky.edu> brian at ms.uky.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
> 
> * I am told that you will need to remove the "register br, cvec"
> * lines from configuration probe routines for these drivers and
> * the ones in contrib/ to work under Ultrix 2.0.
> 
> The purpose of removing "register br, cvec" is that they are now global
>   variables (probably improves efficiency).

Well, actually it's to remove a horrible kluge that depends on the
compiler leaving those register variable in a particular place.  You
may loose a teeny bit of efficiency, but big deal.

I think this is documented somewhere, perhaps in older release notes,
but I can't find it right off.
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