From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 11:41:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117491544A for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <3X0XH8CB>; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:40:11 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AA8@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'Wyatt, Anthony'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Kernel Drivers Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:42:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You may want to ask on -hackers but see if anyone here has an answer 1st. Have you considered checking the source code out for the vga(4) driver in 3.2? > -----Original Message----- > From: Wyatt, Anthony [SMTP:Anthony.Wyatt@its.csiro.au] > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 10:44 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Kernel Drivers > > Hi, > I really don't know where to post this message, so if there is a better > place please let me know. > > I want to write a driver for my video card, not for X, for my own home > grown app :-) > > I've just read Chap 5 of the Magic Garden Explained (SysVR4 Internals) > so > I have some idea whats expected when writing a device driver. I've also > read the technical programming doco for my video card. The big hole in my > plan is PCI. I don't know how to talk to my video card on the PCI bus :-( > > So I guess my questions are: > Should I try and find out more about basic driver programming, > specifically freeBSD, and if so where? > Where can I find out about programming PCI devices? > > Thanks for any help, > Anthony > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message