From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 16:12:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739E116A4B3 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D32B43F75 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:12:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) h8IN500Q017764 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:05:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F6A3BEA.3040707@ec.rr.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:12:42 -0400 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030713 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: would like help on a new driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:12:24 -0000 I found a good resource at http://63.249.85.132/drivers.htm and in it it gave this good info: What to actually do to write a FreeBSD driver 1. Execute shell script ``|/usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh|''. | | >su >cd /usr/share/examples/drivers >sh make_device_driver.sh myfoo I am trying to write a driver for the nforce 2 chipset and this seems to be a big help, but it is over 2 years old. If there is someone who could let me know what they think of this compared to todays standards and api(newbus?). Jason