From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 2 15:34:53 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA03913 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 15:34:53 -0700 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com (dial4.iw.net [204.157.148.53]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA03901 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 15:33:29 -0700 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA18343 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:33:26 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA13169 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:32:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199508022232.RAA13169@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6 4/21/95 To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: device driver writers guide Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 17:32:15 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Is anyone interested in this type of thing. I know that the kernel is a very sacred place (unlike linux). But there may be people who have (possibly proprietary) drivers for other platforms (SCO comes to mind) that would be interested in FreeBSD if they could get they're drivers ported. I've been toying with the idea of writing this for a while now. The scope would be more on how to build a driver for FreeBSD, not unix in general. Meaning BSD specific entry points, config-ing the kernel, device drivers as lkms, etc. I have more or less an outline which I intend to work from. If there is interest, I'll help round it out for the handbook. If not, I'll just write it up for my personal notes. eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com