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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Mac Osx.2 Post 29583 by LivinFree on Tuesday 8th of October 2002 10:51:43 PM
Old 10-08-2002
Well, the stability is very high, but that's most likely bcause the hardware/software/firmware is all integrated to work well together. This is the opposite of Intel-based hardware, in which the hardware and software are made by many different people.

As for hardware supoprt, OSX only runs on Apple hardware. The Unix core, Darwin, is open source, and thus has actually already been ported to x86 hardware, but the higher-level OS, and much of the usable operating system is proprietary, so that will most likely never run on anything else (at least not in a supported fashion). Then again, since it's list of hardware is so much smaller than *BSD or GNU/Linux, it pretty much installs itself, configures itself, etc...

I haven't worked with the printers very much on it, but if it's like anything else, it should work fine! So far, anything with a USB or FireWire interface runs great - automagically! I think the underlying code is based on CUPS for printing.

It really is a far stretch from any other Unix I've ever seen, though, but if you decide you want to cripple your box with the horrible beast called X, you can do that. If you want to install Open Office, you can. As for already-installed software, it's got Samba, can do NFS, ssh, r*.... lot's o' goodies.
 

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ddi_intr_get_supported_types(9F)										  ddi_intr_get_supported_types(9F)

NAME
ddi_intr_get_supported_types - return information on supported hardware interrupt types SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/conf.h> #include <sys/ddi.h> #include <sys/sunddi.h> int ddi_intr_get_supported_types(dev_info_t *dip, int *typesp); INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI) dip Pointer to dev_info structure typesp Pointer to supported interrupt types The ddi_intr_get_supported_types() function retrieves the interrupt types supported by a particular hardware device and by the system soft- ware. Upon successful return, the supported types are returned as a bit mask in the integer pointed to by the typesp argument. See <sys/ddi_intr.h> for a list of interrupts that can be returned by a hardware device. For PCI devices that support MSI and/or MSI-X based hardware, this interface returns only the interrupt types that are supported by all the hardware in the path to the hardware device. An interrupt type is usable by the hardware device if it is returned by the ddi_intr_get_supported_types() function. The device driver can be programmed to use one of the returned interrupt types to receive hardware interrupts. The ddi_intr_get_supported_types() function returns: DDI_SUCCESS On success. DDI_EINVAL On encountering invalid input parameters. DDI_INTR_NOTFOUND Returned when the hardware device is found not to support any hardware interrupts. CONTEXT
The ddi_intr_get_supported_types() function can be called from user or kernel non-interrupt context. See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ pci(4), attributes(5), pcmcia(7D), sysbus(4), ddi_intr_add_handler(9F), ddi_intr_alloc(9F), ddi_intr_enable(9F) The ddi_intr_get_supported_types() function can be called by the device driver even at any time if the driver has added an interrupt han- dler for a given interrupt type. Soft interrupts are always usable and are not returned by this interface. Any consumer of this interface should verify that the return value is not equal to DDI_SUCCESS. Incomplete checking for failure codes could result in inconsistent behavior among platforms. 07 Apr 2005 ddi_intr_get_supported_types(9F)
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