From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 9 14:41:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C598614DB7 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:41:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA07635; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:11:18 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA20874; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:11:17 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990310091116.C490@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:11:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Wes Peters Cc: wayne@crb-web.com, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: writing device drivers for fbsd References: <19990309094317.L490@lemis.com> <36E48B4F.BD62B07D@softweyr.com> <36E4ED98.26E59466@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36E4ED98.26E59466@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 06:44:56PM +0900 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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