From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 14 18:32:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A6B1508D for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smp@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost.StevesCafe.com [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11154; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:39:49 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199903150239.TAA11154@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: Philippe CASIDY Cc: smp@csn.net, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compatibility list In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:58:11 +0100." <199903141858.TAA02596@greatoak.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:39:49 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > On 12 Mar, Steve Passe wrote: > > > > I would suggest that anyone doing coding on this project get copies of: > > > > PCMCIA System Architecture, 2nd edition, ISBN 0-201-40991-7 > > CardBus System Architecture, ISBN 0-201-40997-6 > > > Hello > > I had a llok at this book at my local bookstore on friday afternoon. > They seem to be hardware related. I mean, as far as I am concerned by > improving drivers; are these books suitable? yes they are, to write a driver for a piece of hardware you need to know the specifics of how the hardware operates. (This mail was a reply to a previous posting about the high cost of the PCMCIA docs from the consortium that controls it) > In fact, I wonder that documentation I can have a look to instead of > the device driver writing guide? thats the other side of the coin, the spec for the software paradigm to be used in the FreeBSD specific drivers. Here I can't really help you, you need to learn more about the existing arch. as well as the "new bus arch." Documentation on this seems to be a bit sparse... (someone please correct me!) -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message