From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 12:15:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DD016A41B for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from s21sec.com (mail.s21sec.com [212.31.206.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A78813C45A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from inv-008.s21sec.com (unknown [83.175.204.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by s21sec.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F005B219D for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:45:37 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:56:15 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Eduardo Morras In-Reply-To: <478F35E4.2090606@gmail.com> References: <6efa8680801161248r4ef067a8u5d6480d996e37f9e@mail.gmail.com> <478F35E4.2090606@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Message-Id: <20080117114537.7F005B219D@s21sec.com> Subject: Re: how to be *nix programmer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:15:55 -0000 At 12:03 17/01/2008, you wrote: >Radheshyam Bhatt wrote: >>Hello People, >> >> How's it going? I am interested in to developing drivers >>for FreeBSD. How do I go about start learning program for that? What >>books & resources I should look in to. I know C, and I am learning about >>processes, and system calls. Also where would I take my questions to if I >>don't get something and need help for something in system's programming... >>Please email me back.. > >I would recommend reading: >"The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" >by by Marshall Kirk McKusick (Author), George V. Neville-Neil (Author) > >The questions go where they are appropriate (scsi driver? perhaps >freebsd-scsi@ or freebsd-hackers@ ?). But there is no maillist for general programming FreeBSD, only specific ones. Perhaps a list for newbies FreeBSD programmers can fill the gap. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Useful Acronyms : FAQ = Frecuently Answered Questions