From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 9 14: 3:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FECB37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 14:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from averycfay@yahoo.com) Received: from 064-184-209-204.inaddr.vitts.com (HELO tiger) (64.184.209.204) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Mar 2001 22:03:19 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <060701c0a8e4$aee61ce0$0101a8c0@tiger> From: "Avery Fay" To: Subject: Getting started (hacking that is) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:02:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello everyone, I am interested in contributing code to the FreeBSD project, specifically the kernel but I am not opposed to helping out with user applications if they are in dire need of improvements. To preface my request for assistance, I should tell everyone that I am young (18) without extensive programming experience although I have held two jobs programming in C and feel fairly comfortable doing so. Although I've never worked on a kernel I am currently reading "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD OS" and "Modern Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" so hopefully I have a rough understanding of the theory. I have heard that writing or improving device drivers if one of the easier methods to introduce oneself to kernel programming. Unfortunately (or fortunately I guess), all of my hardware works with FreeBSD. I guess my question then is this: Can someone suggest a cheap piece of hardware with atleast some documentation that FreeBSD is sourly lacking a driver for? Are there any other relatively "easy" ways to learn how to code kernels? (i.e. not writing a device driver) Finally, I'd rather not work on the fxp driver based on the recent quite hostile discussion on this list =). And if I'm totally out of line sending this message to this list, please point me in the write direction or just tell me to shutup and go away =). Thanks in advance, Avery Fay _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message