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From: Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@casidy.com>
Subject: Re: Drivers - how to write them
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On  3 Apr, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Still on my quest for knowledge, I have an ISA card I am designing for a
> specific job (running scientific test equipment, I am building one as a
> retail one is wayyyyyyy to expensive ~au$10K) What I need to know is where
> to find information on writing device drivers, I am doing all the hardware
> and software on my card, but I would not have a clue about writing device
> drivers, is their any good net resources on writing them under FreeBSD ? (I
> am not going winblows as if a users wants glitz, they can use a VB front end
> on winblows and I can send them the data packets :o)
> 

You can have a look at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/devicedrivers.html

The developpers hanbook might be also installed on your system in
/usr/share/doc/....

Enjoy,

Phil.




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