Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 22:37:36 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Chitti Raju <chitti.raju@wipro.com>, FreeBSD Documenters <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Writing device drivers. Message-ID: <20000729223736.B27295@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20000728091632.C36172@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:16:32AM %2B0930 References: <200007271059.DAA32593@geocrawler.i.sourceforge.net> <20000728091632.C36172@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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-On [20000728 07:35], Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.com) wrote: >>> Go to the http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials. >>> See ``FreeBSD Device Driver Writer`s Guide``. >> >> More specifically, the URL is >> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html. > >I believe that this tutorial was removed because it was so out of >date. Unfortunately, the system is currently in a state of flux, and >I don't think anybody has updated it. I'm copying the documentation >project, who might be able to help you further. If that doesn't help, >the best thing you can do is get a generic UNIX (not Linux) device >driver book, none of which are very good, and use that and the source >code of a similar driver to help you. The book I have is by Egan and >Teixiera, and is very old. You may also get answers to specific >questions on FreeBSD-hackers. Currently Alexander and me are preparing some thing for the Developer's Handbook in which device driver writing will be featured again. I know we've been without some good docs on this for a while, but since it is doc persons writing the supplemental coding docs it takes a little longer. ;) Seriously, its WIP and I hope, together with Alex, to provide some concrete things RSN. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Abandon hope, all ye who enter here... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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