From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 07:43:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04408 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (snitterly.nanoteq.co.za [196.37.90.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04401 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edebruin@iname.com) Received: from iname.com (mossie.nanoteq.co.za [196.37.91.6]) by snitterly.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA02821 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:48:04 GMT Message-ID: <35D1C5E1.3C33DB61@iname.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:42:09 +0000 From: eT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: developing device drivers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greets, Thanks to all the guys out there who are so willing to help. One day when I'm big I want to be like you guys :) I have read 'Writing a Unix Device driver 2nd edition' and have read 'FreeBSD device driver's guide' and I now need to take the plunge and start developing/coding. I was wondering if there was a way to develop & test & debug a device driver before linking it into the kernel .. i know it sorta doesn't make sense, but as i said i was wondering... Another Q: I'm writing a PCI character device driver and i was wondering which if_xx.c in /usr/src/sys/pci would be a good template/example. Anyways, my first posting :) so go easy on me... eT -- Etienne de Bruin E-mail: edebruin@iname.com OR edebruin@netscape.net WWW: http://listen.to/eT Forcefully advancing the Kingdom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message