From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 18:31:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E622B37BDD5 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 18:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13942; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:01:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:01:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jack Wang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: evice driver for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000610110129.G81728@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 9 June 2000 at 9:56:09 -0700, Jack Wang wrote: > Can I use the book call Linux device driver to write a new device > driver for FreeBSD I'm not sure if I can parse this. If you mean "will a Linux device driver book help me write a FreeBSD driver", the answer is "probably not". Linux drivers are very different from UNIX drivers. A UNIX driver book will help a lot more, but even then, FreeBSD has changed a lot in the last few years. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message