Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:04:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: ballanty@cs.sfu.ca (Rob Ballantyne) Subject: Re: Device Driver Writing. Message-ID: <199611260804.JAA09865@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <329A2A46.5CC@cs.sfu.ca> from Rob Ballantyne at "Nov 25, 96 03:22:46 pm"
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As Rob Ballantyne wrote: > I hope this isn't too much of an intrusion. I was wondering if > there is a reasonable source of information about writing device > drivers for FreeBSD? I have a couple of Device Driver books but > they tend to be about SCO or other SysV style UNIXs. Is there > documentation for the FreeBSD kernel's internal system calls (like > what would occur in section 9 of the man pages)? There is a section 9 now, but sparsely populated still. There's the 4.4BSD ``bible'' (The 4.4BSD Operating System. Design and Implementation. By McKusick et al., published at Addison-Wesley.) ``All documentation files usually end up in .c.'' (unknown source) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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