Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:11:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Zera Holladay <zera@m-net.arbornet.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to get info to write basic usb driver for own device? Message-ID: <20040708125852.D15330-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> In-Reply-To: <20040704182047.GD72520@silverwraith.com>
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This may go without saying, but have you read Chapter 22 of the FreeBSD Developers' Handbook? I have not read intro(4) extensively but that is probably a good starting place, if you are completely in the dark. -Zera Holladay On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 12:53:39PM +0000, idownes@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > So what I guess what I am asking is how hard would this be? (I have a > > reasonable knowledge of C and Java and have been using FreeBSD for a > > couple of years but have never written a device driver (for any OS)) Do I > > actually need to write a driver or can I use something already existing? > > Where would I get information on how to do this? So far I've been looking > > at the existing drivers; ugen, ufm etc., the programmers handbook and am > > starting to look at libusb...? > > Sorry for the long message. Any pointers etc. would be greatly > > appreciated. > > I am actually in a similar situation. > I know some C, and want to write a device driver for a USB device (web > cam), but I have no idea where to start. > I've searched for a "beginners guide to writing device drivers" but > failed miserably :-( > > -- > Avleen Vig > Systems Administrator > Personal: www.silverwraith.com > EFnet: irc.mindspring.com (Earthlink user access only) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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