From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 14:39:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA22377 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:39:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA22326 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:38:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA22792; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:38:25 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10630; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 23:38:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA22458; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:55:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611212055.VAA22458@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Device driver development To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:55:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: alex@aspn.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3294791F.2BD6@aspn.net> from alex huppenthal at "Nov 21, 96 08:45:35 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As alex huppenthal wrote: > I have several device drivers to create for FreeBSD. If you have > any pointers for a newbie just getting into writing drivers for FreeBSD > please respond. Except of the few stuff that has been written for section 9 of the manual by now, and of course, the 4.4BSD daemon book (and the refs under /usr/src/share/doc/), it's probably mostly UTSLware still. Submissions for new section 9 man pages are greatly welcome! Many of the pages there have been written by people in the process of understanding ``what's going on inside''. If you don't speak troff -mdoc that's not a problem -- there will be people who can convert a plain ASCII document into this format once it's written. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)