Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:07:18 -0700 From: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks for All the Help Message-ID: <1085764038.485.71.camel@zircon> In-Reply-To: <20040528.090131.17267826.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <1085610184.3232.250.camel@zircon> <20040528.090131.17267826.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 08:01, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <1085610184.3232.250.camel@zircon> > Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> writes: > : Gee, I ask a seemingly simple question about connecting a very simple > : driver to the system and all of ZERO people chime in with help. > : > : The only thing anyone had to say involved something like "Read and > : update isa_compat.h" and I can take it from there! However, noone said > : that or anything else for that matter. > : > : It really upsets me because it seems that absolutely *no* documentation > : exists for how to connect a driver to FreeBSD 4.x. Documentation exists > : for 3.x and 5.x, but none for 4.x. > : > : This mailing list just seems useless to me. > > stable tends to be more user oriented, and less developer oriented. I > read it less often than I do the other lists. > > Maybe if you could send me your driver, I can point out the problems > in it. Since you didn't provide any code, it really is hard to guess > what might be going wrong. isa_compat.h almost certainly isn't the > answer, since that's only for drivers in a transition period from the > old APIs to the new ones. Thank you very much for the offer to help. In fact, I "randomly" choose gpib.c and labpc.c as the structural models for my device driver, and so I ran into the problem of how do I hook this into the kernel. The basic problem arises since I just want to diddle I/O addresses and none of the devices have interrupts associated with them, so it really does not need all of that horrid module stuff. I just wanted to hook up a choice of base I/O address from the kernel config file. Thanks again. /Joe
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