Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:11:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: wayne@crb-web.com, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: writing device drivers for fbsd Message-ID: <19990310091116.C490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36E4ED98.26E59466@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 06:44:56PM %2B0900 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990308135605.22098C-100000@crb.crb-web.com> <19990309094317.L490@lemis.com> <36E48B4F.BD62B07D@softweyr.com> <36E4ED98.26E59466@newsguy.com>
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On Tuesday, 9 March 1999 at 18:44:56 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: >> >>> I don't think there is a good book. The ones I have seen have been >>> more "that's all there is" than "this is a great book". >> >> That's pretty much the state of affairs. I only a few, the Pajari book, >> the Egan & Texiera (?? this is from 10-year old memory), and the one by >> "J. E. Lapin" which was actually the staff at Rabbit Systems. They were >> all pretty much in the category of "there isn't a good choice." >> >>>> I saw "Writing Unix Device Drivers" by George Pajari, this weekend >>>> at the store,is this a good book? >> >> I have a copy that is so old I used it to write a Minix driver, ca 1986. >> It's ancient, but will describe what UNIX device drivers do and how they do >> it. Along with several example drivers from the FreeBSD sources, it should >> be an adequate intoduction. >> >> IIRC, it doesn't cover network interface drivers at all. > > How about The Design and Implementation of 4.4 BSD? I assume that Dennis missed a reference to the book rather than the design. I don't think it's much help for writing device drivers; at any rate, it's not a complete reference. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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