Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:20:06 +0800 From: Adrian Chew <adrchew@relay4.jaring.my> To: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>, Mannan Mohammed <Mannan_Mohammed@ccm.ch.intel.com> Subject: Re: Documentation for Device Drivers Message-ID: <XFMail.960626052006.adrchew@pop4.jaring.my> In-Reply-To: <199606251337.JAA26336@rk.ios.com>
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On Tue Jun 25 01:37:04 1996 Rashid Karimov wrote: >>> >> Hi, >> >> I need to write a device driver for a (PCI) network (ethernet) adapter >> for FreeBSD. First of all, is there any documentation that will help >> me get started. Is there any book that I can buy that covers device >> drivers for FreeBSD (or UNIX). Secondly, is there any place I can >> get sample source code for a device driver for FreeBSD. > > Pay a visit to local Barnes and Noble - they have a plenty > of books on the topic. One of them is "Writing Device Drivers in C" > by Philip. M Adams. There's also ( pretty rudimentary) book on > writing the same things for SCO Unix ( vanilla SVR3). > > Intall the "sys" source code on your FreeBSD machine and take a dig - > this could be best way to go ( FreeBSD comes with FULL source code > which is also free :) >> >> Please send the reply to Mannan_Mohammed@ccm.ch.intel.com >> >> Thanks. >> >> Mannan. >> PS: BTW, I just ordered the CD for FreeBSD. If the CD contains >> any documentation, please let me know. > > See above :) - the source code will be there >> >> >> > >
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