31.Oct.2024
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Universal PCI driver system: OpenPCI 9.2
To stem the proliferation of incompatible, vendor-specific software solutions for PCI extensions, Benjamin Vernoux introduced his “OpenPCI” system in 2003 and actively developed it further until 2007. However, the original OpenPCI was only a wrapper that continued to rely on the original, proprietary libraries of the respective hardware provider.
Thomas 'Thor' Richter (e.g. mmu.library, P96, ViNCEd...) tries to solve this problem by implementing the OpenPCI.library from scratch: his version no longer needs the original, hardware-specific driver systems but communicates directly with the hardware.
Thanks to compatibility with the original OpenPCI solution, existing drivers should continue to work with this newer system. On the hardware side, all known PCI bus boards are supported: GRex, Prometheus including its offspring Firestorm and Firebird as well as the various Mediator busboards from Elbox.
OpenPCI has been undergoing rapid development since the beginning of the summer, with three new versions being released in the last seven days alone. (cg)
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