From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 10 4: 1:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6A737B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 04:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4AB1B308068; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:01:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4AB1Ad30642; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:01:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200105101101.f4AB1Ad30642@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jayesh Krishna , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Writing device drivers (was: help me please) In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey of "Thu, 10 May 2001 10:38:35 +0930." <20010510103835.A56501@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:01:10 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 10:40:50 +0530, Jayesh Krishna wrote: > > Hi guys... > > I am comfortable with Linux Device Drivers. Presently I am trying > > to write some pseudo-drivers in FreeBSD(4.2-Release). I tried out > > make_pseudo_driver.sh > > in the /usr/share/examples/drivers but it does not work :-( I also > > went through the "FreeBSD Device Driver Writer's Guide" by Eric L. > > Hernes but it seems to be outdated :-( > > Please someone point me out to some docs regarding writing device > > drivers in FreeBSD.... > > "UTSL". Take a look at a similar driver and get to understand it. > I'm afraid that this is an area which is woefully undocumented. > > You'll also get more replies if you put a useful text on the Subject: > line. You should probably tell julian@ about the problems you have with make_pseudo_driver.sh. > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message