Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:44:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: garret.white@nokia.com, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Device drivers (was: looking for a reference manual) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990615134354.5293E-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990616060554.P521@freebie.lemis.com>
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you can also find samples in /usr/share/examples/drivers. These may be slightly broken in 4.x On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > [moved to -hackers; this is more appropriate there] > > On Tuesday, 15 June 1999 at 20:51:59 +0300, garret.white@nokia.com wrote: > > > > Hi All! > > > > I'm looking to write device drivers for FreeBSD. To this end, I'm searching > > for a Driver-Kernel interface reference manual for FreeBSD (ordinary BSD > > should do). (You know, a reference that documents all the low-level library > > calls and such.) I have one for SVR4 but I'm having trouble finding one for > > BSD. Anyone know of one? > > There's nothing that corresponds directly to the System V DDI/DKI > manual. Some (but unfortunately not all) kernel functions and > structures are described in section 9 of the manual. Look at intro(9) > for a start. There's also a tutorial at > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html. But you'll find that > you'll have to read a lot of other driver code before you get your > driver finished. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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