From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 10 12:59:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD9B37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 12:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA09734; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3AFAF14E.EE22009F@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:51:42 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Somers Cc: Greg Lehey , Jayesh Krishna , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing device drivers (was: help me please) References: <200105101101.f4AB1Ad30642@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Hernes but it seems to be outdated :-( 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 The pseudo one is known to be WAYYYYYYY out of date...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 > > -- > 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 -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message