From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 17 21:52: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 21:52:03 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492FB37B402 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 147sai-0000CC-00; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:12:04 -0700 Sender: wes@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3A3D9CA4.B34D5144@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:12:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Babkin Cc: David Preece , heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: Writing Device Drivers References: <5.0.0.25.1.20001218075649.01accb00@pop3.i4free.co.nz> <3A3D4FE8.217AEF74@bellatlantic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sergey Babkin wrote: > > David Preece wrote: > > > > At 13:02 17/12/00 +0000, you wrote: > > >Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple > > >examples > > >that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something simple like > > >that? > > > > This is turning into a FAQ, but don't worry about it. The usual answer is > > to take one of the existing drivers and work out what it does. There's also > > Look at the DaemonNews (www.daemonnews.org), the Blueprints column. > If I remember the months correctly, in the July 2000 issues there is > an introduction into FreeBSD device drivers by Alexander Langner, > and in June and August issues there are my articles on CAM (SCSI) > drivers and ISA device drivers respectively. There also were articles > on the Netgraph networking subsystem and on writing drivers as modules. > I believe that these articles have been turned into sections of the > Handbook as well but I'm not sure where exectly in Handbook they are. It's about time for an article index at DN, isn't it? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message