From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 2:57:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACC937B5B1 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 02:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pmk@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00806 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:26:48 +0530 (IST) Received: from pcd134.sasi.com ([10.0.16.134]) by sasi.com; Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:26:45 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (pmk@localhost) by pcd134.sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00748; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:26:38 +0530 X-Authentication-Warning: pcd134.sasi.com: pmk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 15:26:38 +0530 (IST) From: Mohana Krishna Penumetcha To: nick <_seal@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drivers In-Reply-To: <011901bfe4c8$1b35b540$140110ac@int.infocomsc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, In an ealier mail some one has sent a list of suggested reading for device drivers(none of them are specific to FreeBSD). i found unix device drivers by george pajari very useful. the methodology i followed is to read a chapter from that book and read the FreeBSD sources for simillar devices. it has been very effective so far.after reading this book you only need to know functions specific to BSD. manuals for deivce driver developement under solaris is available at http://soldc.sun.com/developer/support/driver/docs/pubs.html and the same for HP-UX is available at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/ incase you don't have the above book, you can use any of the above manuals (i used HP doc and it is good) there is an article on CAM SCSI drivers in the june issue of daemon news(www.daemonnews.org). -Regards mohan Telecom R&D , FAC-D, SAS ph:- 5281461 x3078 On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, nick wrote: > Hi folks! > > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction on how to > write device drivers. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message