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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:38:00 -0600 (CST)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Edward <edward_gess@hotmail.com>
Subject:   Re: SYSCALL
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010315213800.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <15025.33194.124264.849176@guru.mired.org>

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On 16-Mar-01 Mike Meyer wrote:
> Edward <edward_gess@hotmail.com> types:
>>         Hello all,
>>     I want to know, is there any standards in FreeBSD driver
>> writting? In other words, I want to know how FreeBSD's kernel works
>>     with driver? I tried to look in sources, but I didn't found
>> anything... For example, how the kernel on low level reads the sector
>>     from hard disk? Or prints the string to the screen??? Where can I
>> find this code in the source? Or where is system call handler?
> 
> They're all there. Sounds like you want to get Kirk McKusick's book on
> BSD to get started, though.

There are some online tutorials as well at

        http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/

The assembly language tutorial in particular details the low-level system call
interface.

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E-Mail: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
Date: 15-Mar-01
Time: 21:36:47

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