From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 20 04:23:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A34F106566C for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from mailgw.es.net (mail1.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:201:1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5292D8FC0C for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:23:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:910::29]) by mailgw.es.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5K4NXKo017477 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:23:35 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 520971CC09; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:23:33 -0700 (PDT) To: "Sean P. Dew" In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:04:53 PDT." <45d874490906192104w1a11271am97f6d9705b7fa49c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:23:33 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20090620042333.520971CC09@ptavv.es.net> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2009-06-19_02:2009-06-01, 2009-06-19, 2009-06-18 signatures=0 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building device drivers for FreeBSD 7.2+ /AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:23:36 -0000 > Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:04:53 -0700 > From: "Sean P. Dew" > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Is there any tutorial/book on building device drivers for Free BSD? The canonical one is "The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook" (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html) Also, see the FreeBSD Documentation pages for information on paper books. http://www.freebsd.org/publish.html While a bit out of date, Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil's "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System", ISBN 4-7561-4679-1 is still probably the most detailed presentation on the OS internals. Based on FreeBSD 5.2, it is the modern kernel and driver design, but it is still nearly 5 years old. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751