Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:42:14 -0500 From: "Jeff Brooke" <jeff@mobydark.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: driver for Matrox Meteor II frame grabber Message-ID: <032a01c087e0$d8bd90e0$930aa8c0@mobydark.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello All, I am fairly new to freebsd, but have been asked to develop a driver for the Matrox Meteor II card. (To the best of my knowledge, there is currently no such driver in fbsd, please correct me if I'm wrong..) My first initial thoughts were, 'ok, let's base it as much as possible on the Meteor I driver, naturally making changes for hardware differences where applicable. However, I've just read a couple of archive entries about a new method for drivers based on a 'newbus' system. My questions are: (i) where, if at all, can I find info/tutorials/examples on driver-writing with this method? (ii) what are the benefits of the newbus method? (iii) is it still at all acceptable to write drivers using the old style/method? If these issues are better posted to another mailing list, please advise... Thanks very much in advance, Jeff Brooke [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello All,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am fairly new to freebsd, but have been asked to develop a driver for the Matrox Meteor II card. (To the best of my knowledge, there is currently no such driver in fbsd, please correct me if I'm wrong..)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My first initial thoughts were, 'ok, let's base it as much as possible on the Meteor I driver, naturally making changes for hardware differences where applicable. However, I've just read a couple of archive entries about a new method for drivers based on a 'newbus' system.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My questions are: (i) where, if at all, can I find info/tutorials/examples on driver-writing with this method? (ii) what are the benefits of the newbus method? (iii) is it still at all acceptable to write drivers using the old style/method?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If these issues are better posted to another mailing list, please advise...</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks very much in advance,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff Brooke</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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