Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:43:22 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: robert@mpe.mpg.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: porting a driver from linux to freebsd. Message-ID: <3AF6DEBA.C228828D@elischer.org> References: <200105031453.f43ErXS31356@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
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Robert Suetterlin wrote:
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> Hello!
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> I asked this already on freebsd-questions and was suggested to ask on this list, too.
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> I have a linux driver for a video grabber card (dfg/bw1 from 'the imaging source'). This card does not use a well bt848 or similar chip. I would like to transfer this driver to freebsd.
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> I do understand how the driver works under linux and I will explain below. I have also read articles on newbus, some netbsd docs, several freebsd manpages and the sources of meteor.c. I know in principle how to do a driver under freebsd. But I never did it before and wanted to get some expertise on how to do it best.
Also look at the sample driver in
/usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_drive.sh
in -current (4.x is way out of date)
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