Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:46:12 +0930 From: Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com> To: Rick Hunnicutt <rk_hunnicutt@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New driver writer Message-ID: <47FBFCBC.5060506@clearchain.com> In-Reply-To: <535058.32207.qm@web37606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <535058.32207.qm@web37606.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Rick Hunnicutt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm writing a BSD PCI character driver and have many questions. I have the architecture handbook and it answers some questions but leaves much unaddressed. For example, the parameters on the open/close/read/write calls don't seems to be address. Am I expected to dig around the code base to decipher their purpose or have I missed a vital area of documentation?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Rick
>
>
Hi Rick,
There's a lot of man pages for kernel calls, but yes for some things
you'll have to dig around in code.
As a start try looking in:
module(9)
driver(9)
/usr/src/sys/sys
/usr/share/examples/kld
Cheers,
Benjamin
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