Chapter 1, “Physical and Virtual Memory”
An overview of physical memory, virtual address space management, and device addressing in SGI/MIPS systems.
Chapter 2, “Device Configuration”
How IRIX locates devices, and how devices are represented in software.
Chapter 3, “Device Control Software”
A survey of the ways in which you can control devices under IRIX, from user-level processes and from kernel-level drivers of different kinds.
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