Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:12:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com>, heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, core@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: Writing Device Drivers Message-ID: <3A3D9CA4.B34D5144@softweyr.com> References: <5.0.0.25.1.20001218075649.01accb00@pop3.i4free.co.nz> <3A3D4FE8.217AEF74@bellatlantic.net>
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Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> David Preece wrote:
> >
> > At 13:02 17/12/00 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple
> > >examples
> > >that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something simple like
> > >that?
> >
> > This is turning into a FAQ, but don't worry about it. The usual answer is
> > to take one of the existing drivers and work out what it does. There's also
>
> Look at the DaemonNews (www.daemonnews.org), the Blueprints column.
> If I remember the months correctly, in the July 2000 issues there is
> an introduction into FreeBSD device drivers by Alexander Langner,
> and in June and August issues there are my articles on CAM (SCSI)
> drivers and ISA device drivers respectively. There also were articles
> on the Netgraph networking subsystem and on writing drivers as modules.
> I believe that these articles have been turned into sections of the
> Handbook as well but I'm not sure where exectly in Handbook they are.
It's about time for an article index at DN, isn't it?
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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