Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:42:20 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'Wyatt, Anthony'" <Anthony.Wyatt@its.csiro.au>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Kernel Drivers Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AA8@site2s1>
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You may want to ask on -hackers but see if anyone here has an answer 1st. Have you considered checking the source code out for the vga(4) driver in 3.2? > -----Original Message----- > From: Wyatt, Anthony [SMTP:Anthony.Wyatt@its.csiro.au] > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 10:44 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Kernel Drivers > > Hi, > I really don't know where to post this message, so if there is a better > place please let me know. > > I want to write a driver for my video card, not for X, for my own home > grown app :-) > > I've just read Chap 5 of the Magic Garden Explained (SysVR4 Internals) > so > I have some idea whats expected when writing a device driver. I've also > read the technical programming doco for my video card. The big hole in my > plan is PCI. I don't know how to talk to my video card on the PCI bus :-( > > So I guess my questions are: > Should I try and find out more about basic driver programming, > specifically freeBSD, and if so where? > Where can I find out about programming PCI devices? > > Thanks for any help, > Anthony > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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