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From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD/386 device driver
Keywords: driver
Message-ID: <schneck.710351162@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 5 Jul 92 15:46:02 GMT
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walter@etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Reiner Walter) writes:
>I want to port a device driver from INTERACTIVE to BSD/386.
you'll get more help on BSD/386 is you send to BSDI's beta-tester
mailing list ... (unless you want to talk about 386bsd, of course)
>The driver from INTERACTIVE uses the 'u.' structure like u.u_count,u.u_base,
>u.u_offset ... .
>BSD/386 uses the 'uio' structure.
>I couldn't find any book which describes this 'uio' structure.
>Can anybody suggest me some books which describe this structure and which
>describe how to write device drivers for BSD/386 or how to port device drivers
>from INTERACTIVE to BSD.
Try "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System",
by S. Leffler, M.K. McKusick, M.J. Karels and J.S. Quarterman from
Addison-Wesley ("The Devil Book"), pages 184-185, 231-232, 268, 273, 447
(from the index, your mileage may vary)
Also, the 4.3 BSD System Managers Manual (available from your friendly
UNIX User Group (USENIX/EurOpen/...) contains some interesting chapters.
And of course ... RTFSource :)
>Thank you for your answer!
>I havn't yet a mail access. Please post the answer under 'BSD/386 driver'
>in the 'com.unix.bsd' group.
HMPF.
\Bernhard.
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