Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:38:09 +0900 From: Sangwoo Shim <sangwoos@gmail.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pete <TheManifestShadow@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Driver Development Books? Message-ID: <4cbd01f40510120938j3117ae6ap@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <434D0A73.2010509@samsco.org> References: <434BECA0.9050501@gmail.com> <434D0A73.2010509@samsco.org>
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2005/10/12, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>: > Pete wrote: > > Hello, > > I have what may seem to be a silly question, but I cannot find any > > other decent resources on the web. >.< The problem that I am having > > right now is > > that I have a fairly nice graphics card which, for the moment is only > > supported on Windows Operating systems, and old 2.4 Linux kernels. So > > far there has > > not been much positive outlook in porting the drivers to *BSD or any of > > the 2.6 kernels that I know of, let alone 64-bit drivers for non-Win OS= es. > > > > So I guess that makes my question fairly simple then; I know that drive= r > > code is written in C (which I am learning currently) but thats about al= l > > I know. I'm probably > > not far off when I say that I need more to go on. Yet, from looking at > > Amazon.com I have not been able to find any books on writing driver > > code, which is really > > frustrating. > > > > One of my security related books, Rootkits, tells me about how to write > > drivers for a completely different reason so I know a bit more about ho= w > > they work but again > > the code involved does not interface hardware to the OS, just injects a > > custom application. The other tool that I will probably use is Jungo, > > which is a nice-looking > > application which automates a skeletal version of the driver you need, > > but again, I would not know how to fill it out. > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > -Pete > > > > There are indeed no books that I know of on the subject of writing > drivers for any *BSD, let alone FreeBSD. [snip] For me, following book was quite helpful: Embedded FreeBSD cookbook, by Paul Cevoli ISBN: 1589950046 It tells about basic kernel data structure for driver writing. One of the best aspect of this book is that it shows you real code for real device (a simple PCI device). Moreover, it was quite easy to read. Although it focuses on FreeBSD 4.X. For those who want some _introduction_ for the FreeBSD driver writing, I would like to recommend this. Regard, Sangwoo Shim
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