;DEVICE.

ASM is a simple device driver to illustrate the structure of

;a device driver. All it does is announce its presence when loaded.

;(C) 1995 American Eagle Publications, Inc., All rights reserved.

.model tiny
.code

ORG 0

HEADER:
dd -1 ;Link to next device driver
dw 0C840H ;Device attribute word
dw OFFSET STRAT ;Pointer to strategy routine
dw OFFSET INTR ;Pointer to interrupt routine
db ’DEVICE’ ;Device name

RHPTR dd ? ;pointer to request header, filled in by DOS

;This is the strategy routine. Typically it just takes the value passed to it
;in es:bx and stores it at RHPTR for use by the INTR procedure. This value is
;the pointer to the request header, which the device uses to determine what is
;being asked of it.
STRAT:
mov WORD PTR cs:[RHPTR],bx
mov WORD PTR cs:[RHPTR+2],es
retf

;This is the interrupt routine. It’s called by DOS to tell the device driver
;to do something. Typical calls include reading or writing to a device,
;opening it, closing it, etc.
INTR:
push bx
push si
push di
push ds
push es
push cs
pop ds
les di,[RHPTR] ;es:di points to request header
mov al,es:[di+2] ;get command number

or al,al ;command number 0? (Initialize device)

jnz INTR1 ;nope, handle other commands
call INIT ;yes, go initialize device
jmp INTRX ;and exit INTR routine

INTR1: call NOT_IMPLEMENTED ;all other commands not implemented

INTRX: pop es
pop ds
pop di
pop si
pop bx
retf

;Device initialization routine, Function 0. This just displays HELLO_MSG using

;BIOS video and then exits.
INIT:
mov si,OFFSET HELLO_MSG
INITLP: lodsb
or al,al
jz INITX
mov ah,0EH
int 10H
jmp INITLP

Figure 12.1: A simple device driver DEVICE.ASM.