Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:09:00 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Avery Fay <averycfay@yahoo.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting started (hacking that is) Message-ID: <20010309140900.W18351@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <060701c0a8e4$aee61ce0$0101a8c0@tiger>; from averycfay@yahoo.com on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:02:49PM -0500 References: <060701c0a8e4$aee61ce0$0101a8c0@tiger>
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* Avery Fay <averycfay@yahoo.com> [010309 14:03] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am interested in contributing code to the FreeBSD project, specifically > the kernel but I am not opposed to helping out with user applications if > they are in dire need of improvements. To preface my request for assistance, > I should tell everyone that I am young (18) without extensive programming > experience although I have held two jobs programming in C and feel fairly > comfortable doing so. Although I've never worked on a kernel I am currently > reading "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD OS" and "Modern > Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" so hopefully I have a rough > understanding of the theory. > > I have heard that writing or improving device drivers if one of the easier > methods to introduce oneself to kernel programming. Unfortunately (or > fortunately I guess), all of my hardware works with FreeBSD. I guess my > question then is this: Can someone suggest a cheap piece of hardware with > atleast some documentation that FreeBSD is sourly lacking a driver for? Are > there any other relatively "easy" ways to learn how to code kernels? (i.e. > not writing a device driver) > > Finally, I'd rather not work on the fxp driver based on the recent quite > hostile discussion on this list =). And if I'm totally out of line sending > this message to this list, please point me in the write direction or just > tell me to shutup and go away =). Go here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi Submit fixes. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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