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From: "Jayesh Krishna" <jayeshkrishna@hotmail.com>
To: julian@elischer.org
Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Writing pseudo-driver for FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:10:40 +0530
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Hi....
    Mission accomplished( the skeleton pseudo-driver is up). I was
able to link it statically and also dynamically( i had promised julien)
to the kernel. Now the basic ioctls are working 8-)
    Special thanx to Julian, Julien and Brian and to all hackers who
looked into my problem...:-)
jayesh


>From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
>To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
>CC: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jayesh Krishna 
><jayeshkrishna@hotmail.com>,        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Writing device drivers (was: help me please)
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:51:42 -0700
>
>Brian Somers wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday,  9 May 2001 at 10:40:50 +0530, Jayesh Krishna wrote:
> > > > Hi guys...
> > > > I am comfortable with Linux Device Drivers. Presently I am trying
> > > > to write some pseudo-drivers in FreeBSD(4.2-Release). I tried out
> > > > make_pseudo_driver.sh
> > > > in the /usr/share/examples/drivers but it does not work :-( I also
> > > > went through the "FreeBSD Device Driver Writer's Guide" by Eric L.
> > > > Hernes but it seems to be outdated :-(
> > > >     Please someone point me out to some docs regarding writing 
>device
> > > > drivers in FreeBSD....
> > >
> > > "UTSL".  Take a look at a similar driver and get to understand it.
> > > I'm afraid that this is an area which is woefully undocumented.
> > >
> > > You'll also get more replies if you put a useful text on the Subject:
> > > line.
> >
> > You should probably tell julian@ about the problems you have with
> > make_pseudo_driver.sh.
>
>The pseudo one is known to be WAYYYYYYY out of date...
>
>the other one there (make_device_driver.sh)
>is more or less up to date.
>
> >
> > > Greg
> > > --
> > > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key
> > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers
> >
> > --
> > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        
><brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
> >       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   
><brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
> >
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