From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 1:24:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60ECA37B443 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA82287; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:23:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:23:57 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: kjayesh@in.ibm.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Query regding mailing list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kjayesh@in.ibm.com wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > hi.... > I have some queries regding device drivers in FreeBSD. Which mailing > list should i post the messages > to ? It depends. The pat answer is "Read the list charters" (see below). If you have a general user question about installing a device driver, configuring a device, or loading a kernel module, -questions is probably a good bet. If you plan on writing driver code for new (not yet supported) hardware, you will want to track -CURRENT, read freebsd-current, freebsd-hackers, and freebsd-hardware. -hardware would probably provide the best forum for general questions about hardware implementation and support. -hackers is a good forum for discussing intimately technical system code issues, including, I suppose, driver coding. Send a message to majordomo@freebsd.org, and put (for example) info freebsd-hardware in the body of your message. I get the freebsd-hardware list charter: -- >>>> info freebsd-hardware FREEBSD-HARDWARE General discussion of FreeBSD hardware General discussion about the types of hardware that FreeBSD runs on, various problems and suggestions concerning what to buy or avoid. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- END OF COMMANDS If you are not already a skilled systems programmer, and you are looking for general information on "how to code/port a driver", etc., you may not find what you are looking for in the lists. Try some mailing list searches (see http://www.freebsd.org/search/) for questions of a similar nature to your own. Hope this helps, - Ryan > Regards, > Jayesh Krishna > TCP/IP Team > IBM India -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message