Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:38:00 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Edward <edward_gess@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: SYSCALL Message-ID: <XFMail.010315213800.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <15025.33194.124264.849176@guru.mired.org>
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On 16-Mar-01 Mike Meyer wrote:
> Edward <edward_gess@hotmail.com> types:
>> Hello all,
>> I want to know, is there any standards in FreeBSD driver
>> writting? In other words, I want to know how FreeBSD's kernel works
>> with driver? I tried to look in sources, but I didn't found
>> anything... For example, how the kernel on low level reads the sector
>> from hard disk? Or prints the string to the screen??? Where can I
>> find this code in the source? Or where is system call handler?
>
> They're all there. Sounds like you want to get Kirk McKusick's book on
> BSD to get started, though.
There are some online tutorials as well at
http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/
The assembly language tutorial in particular details the low-level system call
interface.
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Date: 15-Mar-01
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