Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:43:24 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: "Sean P. Dew" <freebsd.work@gmail.com> Subject: Re: building device drivers for FreeBSD 7.2+ /AMD64 Message-ID: <200906200643.24654.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20090620042333.520971CC09@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090620042333.520971CC09@ptavv.es.net>
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On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:23:33 Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:04:53 -0700 > > From: "Sean P. Dew" <freebsd.work@gmail.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > > > Is there any tutorial/book on building device drivers for Free BSD? > > The canonical one is "The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook" > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/i >ndex.html) > > Also, see the FreeBSD Documentation pages for information on paper > books. http://www.freebsd.org/publish.html > > While a bit out of date, Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil's "The > Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System", ISBN > 4-7561-4679-1 is still probably the most detailed presentation on the > OS internals. Based on FreeBSD 5.2, it is the modern kernel and driver > design, but it is still nearly 5 years old. You might also want to look at the driver(9) man page and those linked from there. In addition check out jmg's 2006 BSDCan Presentation: http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/freebsd.device.driver.slides.pdf http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/freebsd.driver.pdf -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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