Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:44:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, wayne@crb-web.com, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: writing device drivers for fbsd Message-ID: <36E4ED98.26E59466@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990308135605.22098C-100000@crb.crb-web.com> <19990309094317.L490@lemis.com> <36E48B4F.BD62B07D@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > > I don't think there is a good book. The ones I have seen have been > > more "that's all there is" than "this is a great book". > > That's pretty much the state of affairs. I only a few, the Pajari book, > the Egan & Texiera (?? this is from 10-year old memory), and the one by > "J. E. Lapin" which was actually the staff at Rabbit Systems. They were > all pretty much in the category of "there isn't a good choice." > > > > I saw "Writing Unix Device Drivers" by George Pajari, this weekend > > > at the store,is this a good book? > > I have a copy that is so old I used it to write a Minix driver, ca 1986. > It's ancient, but will describe what UNIX device drivers do and how they do > it. Along with several example drivers from the FreeBSD sources, it should > be an adequate intoduction. > > IIRC, it doesn't cover network interface drivers at all. How about The Design and Implementation of 4.4 BSD? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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