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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 12:51:42 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jayesh Krishna <jayeshkrishna@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Writing device drivers (was: help me please)
Message-ID:  <3AFAF14E.EE22009F@elischer.org>
References:  <200105101101.f4AB1Ad30642@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > 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 Hernes but it seems to be outdated :-(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.

The pseudo one is known to be WAYYYYYYY out of date...

the other one there (make_device_driver.sh)
is more or less up to date.

> 
> > Greg
> > --
> > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key
> > See complete headers for address and phone numbers
> 
> --
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