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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 1996 05:20:06 +0800
From:      Adrian Chew <adrchew@relay4.jaring.my>
To:        Rashid  Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>, Mannan Mohammed <Mannan_Mohammed@ccm.ch.intel.com>
Subject:   Re: Documentation for Device Drivers
Message-ID:  <XFMail.960626052006.adrchew@pop4.jaring.my>
In-Reply-To: <199606251337.JAA26336@rk.ios.com>

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On Tue Jun 25 01:37:04 1996 Rashid  Karimov wrote:
>>> 
>>      Hi,
>>      
>>      I need to write a device driver for a (PCI) network (ethernet) adapter
>>      for FreeBSD. First of all, is there any documentation that will help
>>      me get started. Is there any book that I can buy that covers device
>>      drivers for FreeBSD (or UNIX). Secondly, is there any place I can
>>      get sample source code for a device driver for FreeBSD.
>
>	Pay a visit to local Barnes and Noble - they have a plenty 
>	of books on the topic. One of them is "Writing Device Drivers in C"
>	by Philip. M  Adams. There's also ( pretty rudimentary) book on
>	writing the same things for SCO Unix ( vanilla SVR3).
>
>	Intall the "sys" source code on your FreeBSD machine and take a dig - 
>	this could be best way to go ( FreeBSD comes with FULL source code
>	which is also free :)
>>      
>>      Please send the reply to Mannan_Mohammed@ccm.ch.intel.com
>>      
>>      Thanks.
>>      
>>      Mannan.
>>      PS: BTW, I just ordered the CD for FreeBSD. If the CD contains
>>      any documentation, please let me know.
>
>	See above :) - the source code will be there
>>      
>>      
>> 
>
>




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