Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 08:21:08 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LKM example device driver available Message-ID: <199509261321.IAA15175@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:09:09 BST." <m0sxHxl-000013C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com>
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> > Since i could not find any examples of a LKM device driver i wrote one myself. > > It is a very basic one, it just controls two 7segment displays connected to > a 8255 parallel port (no interrupts), commented and with a postinstall script > to make device files. > I had (have) a c-module which will ld -r with the pcaudio device to make an lkm. There has been some discussion as to where the various pieces should go though. For example it has been argued that the devsw table should go into each and every driver, probably a good idea too, but it means revisiting all drivers. All in all, my example probably isn't good to use as a model, but it does show what needs to be done. I'll put the tarball in my home dir on freefall for a few days... eric. > I think it would be a good thing to put it into /usr/src/share/examples/lkm. > > It is available from wcarchive.cdrom.com in directory pub/FreeBSD/incoming as > led-lkm-driver.tar.gz. > > hellmuth > -- > Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe > (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ? > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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