From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 7 09:18:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09898 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09893 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:18:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu) Received: from o2.cs.rpi.edu (crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu [128.113.96.156]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01995 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 12:17:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199901071717.MAA01995@cs.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Device Drivers for 3.0-CURRENTg Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 12:17:59 -0500 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A professor here is interested in having his class write a simple device driver for his class this semester. Some initial ideas I had for this would be to have it be as a KLD, so they would not have to reboot the machines to test their code (PANICs aside ;). The other idea was to have them write a 'real' driver instead of a virtual one (something that had hardware and interupts to go with it.); I had thought of writing an extreamly simple serial device. All of this would be with giving the students substantial documentation and stub functions to help them get started. I am looking for feedback, and hopefully a little help :). Is the example is /usr/share/examples/... a good starting point? -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message