SERIAL DRIVER INTERFACE FOR MODULAR I/O SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

An operating system (100) and hardware-independent serial driver interface (113) receives device driver I/O requests in accordance with a first protocol, translates the request in accordance with a first protocol, translates the request into a second request according to a second protocol, assembles data structure, pointed to by a pointer, representative of the I/O requests, and sends the pointer to an adapter (110) thus enabling the adapter to pass I/O request, in the appropriate protocol, to a device connected to the adapter (110).