Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:07:47 +0300 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Igor Vilhalba <igor.vilhalba@outlook.com> Cc: "freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting started at writting device drivers for FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAOgwaMsrbkDW3m7dU8JxthytA=gT_RdUVuSh_qac=-XR4OW1ng@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CY4PR22MB0198CB81171B3681965CD656F4CE0@CY4PR22MB0198.namprd22.prod.outlook.com> References: <CY4PR22MB0198CB81171B3681965CD656F4CE0@CY4PR22MB0198.namprd22.prod.outlook.com>
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 4:39 AM Igor Vilhalba <igor.vilhalba@outlook.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! I asked the following at Stack Exchange< > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/574768/get-started-at-writing-device-drivers-for-freebsd?noredirect=1#comment1070055_574768>; > and was told to try mailing you for solving this: > > " I just decided to give FreeBSD a try last week and found out that my > wireless card (Ralink rt3290) isn't supported. > > I am good at C - and I know I have to for this task - and am very fond of > Assembly, so I am thinking about writing a driver for ir. > However, I have absolutely no experience with driver programming and would > like to know your opinion about whether it is feasible or not to do so. I > don't know if it helps, but all of the three Linux distros I have installed > (Arch, Manjaro and openSUSE) have all the necessary drivers for my machine. > > I recently found out that I have a huge interest how the computer and the > OSes (mainly *nix) work so I am willing to study deeply any good reading > material you can point out for me. Also, if you have any advices and/or > experience in the field, I will be grateful for your help. > > Thank you very much for your attention and help! I really appreciate it. " > > Thank you in advance! > > Igor de Araujo Vilhalba > _______________________________________________ > I do not know whether the following book may be useful for you : https://nostarch.com/bsddrivers.htm FreeBSD Device Drivers A Guide for the Intrepid by Joseph Kong May 2012, 352 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-204-3 Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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