Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:31:22 +0100 From: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> To: Pete <TheManifestShadow@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver Development Books? Message-ID: <70e8236f0510120531m33942c8dwb72c4729b83e264b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <434BECA0.9050501@gmail.com> References: <434BECA0.9050501@gmail.com>
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On 10/11/05, Pete <TheManifestShadow@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have what may seem to be a silly question, but I cannot find any > other decent resources on the web. >.< The problem that I am having > right now is > that I have a fairly nice graphics card which, for the moment is only > supported on Windows Operating systems, and old 2.4 Linux kernels. So > far there has > not been much positive outlook in porting the drivers to *BSD or any of > the 2.6 kernels that I know of, let alone 64-bit drivers for non-Win OSes= . > > So I guess that makes my question fairly simple then; I know that driver > code is written in C (which I am learning currently) but thats about all > I know. I'm probably > not far off when I say that I need more to go on. Yet, from looking at > Amazon.com I have not been able to find any books on writing driver > code, which is really > frustrating. > > One of my security related books, Rootkits, tells me about how to write > drivers for a completely different reason so I know a bit more about how > they work but again > the code involved does not interface hardware to the OS, just injects a > custom application. The other tool that I will probably use is Jungo, > which is a nice-looking > application which automates a skeletal version of the driver you need, > but again, I would not know how to fill it out. > > Any help is appreciated. > > -Pete I started porting a pseudo driver from OpenBSD and had the same issues. You could find more info here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/index.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/newbus-api.h= tml http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics= -char.html#AEN8703 And this come in very handy: FreeBSD Source Code Tour: http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/tour/ A nice website provided by Robert Watson (Thanks!!!): http://fxr.watson.org= / Looking at existing code is also good, like the simple led driver by phk@ There was also a thread where John Baldwin described the parts of a driver but I can't seem to find it. -- Joao Barros
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