From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 16 21:40:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF1C10ED4 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA14546; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:59:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:59:13 -0500 (EST) From: perlsta To: Wes Peters Cc: Donn Miller , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Systems programming for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <36C9F07C.7F2C9367@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Donn Miller wrote: > > > There's a Linux howto on systems programming, maybe FreeBSD is similar > > in that respect. so I can just use the Linux howto for FreeBSD. What > > are ports anyway, is it like you're writing to a special part of memory? > > No, I/O ports are a separate address space from memory. I strongly > suggest a good book on x86 architecture, but don't have any idea > what one might be. Mine is ages old and probably isn't published > anymore. > > Suggestions, hackers? 'PC Intern' is *THE* book. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message