From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 18 1:49: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 01:49:07 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from klapaucius.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E40037B404 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by klapaucius.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 770E9239A42; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:49:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:49:03 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Wes Peters Cc: Sergey Babkin , David Preece , heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: Writing Device Drivers Message-ID: <20001218014903.M30802@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <5.0.0.25.1.20001218075649.01accb00@pop3.i4free.co.nz> <3A3D4FE8.217AEF74@bellatlantic.net> <3A3D9CA4.B34D5144@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A3D9CA4.B34D5144@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:12:04PM -0700 Organization: daemonnews Sender: gsutter@zer0.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2000-12-17 22:12 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > 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 > > > > 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? Yes. As soon as any of us can find time to do the work. We need to get our ezine into our database. It involves a bit of scripting, some searching through email archives, categorization, then the import. All of it's just text/html now; we weren't very thoughtful at first. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Fnord. mailto:gsutter@daemonnews.org hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message