From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 4 23:41:10 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA03345 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 23:41:10 -0700 Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA03236 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 23:39:43 -0700 Received: (from didier@localhost) by aida (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA00385; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 23:36:24 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 23:36:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Didier Derny X-Sender: didier@aida To: "Eric L. Hernes" cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device driver writers guide In-Reply-To: <199508022232.RAA13169@jake.lodgenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Aug 1995, Eric L. Hernes wrote: > > Is anyone interested in this type of thing. I know that the > kernel is a very sacred place (unlike linux). But there may > be people who have (possibly proprietary) drivers for other > platforms (SCO comes to mind) that would be interested in > FreeBSD if they could get they're drivers ported. > > I've been toying with the idea of writing this for a while now. > The scope would be more on how to build a driver for FreeBSD, not > unix in general. Meaning BSD specific entry points, config-ing > the kernel, device drivers as lkms, etc. > > I have more or less an outline which I intend to work from. > If there is interest, I'll help round it out for the handbook. > If not, I'll just write it up for my personal notes. > > eric. > -- > erich@lodgenet.com > erich@rrnet.com > > I'm very interested. -- Didier Derny didier@aida.org