From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 9 3: 8:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CBA615190 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 03:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA19513; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:07:38 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E4ED98.26E59466@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:44:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: Greg Lehey , wayne@crb-web.com, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: writing device drivers for fbsd References: <19990309094317.L490@lemis.com> <36E48B4F.BD62B07D@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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