Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 17:16:05 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Richard Airlie <kaneda@darq.net> Cc: Robert Eckardt <Robert.Eckardt@t-online.de>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guide to writing device drivers sought Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303091713370.98917-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20030310001444.GA14554@phear.darq.net>
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At one stage the example driver in -current (/usr/share/examples/drivers) was correct for 4.x but I don't know if that is true any more as so many things have changed.. It's a shellscript that generates a skeleton driver for you. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Richard Airlie wrote: > hi, > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:44:00PM +0100, Robert Eckardt wrote: > > long ago I used the joy-driver as an example to integrate my own device > > driver. I'm now trying (once again :-) to do the same in FreeBSD-4.7. > > Unfortunately, joy no longer functions correctly (since 4.1) and so it is an > > inappropriate example. > > i have submitted a PR including a patch for this problem: > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46734>; > > (it would be really nice if someone could look at this and give it the 'thumbs > up' if its ok). > > the patch allows for /dev/joy0 and /dev/joy1 to both exist, attached to the > same I/O port (0x201). > > if you look at the patch you'll see there are only minor changes required to > achieve this.. its quite straightforward. > > hope this is some use to you - > > regards, > richard. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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