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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Info on device driver programming needed
Date: 5 Nov 1995 23:23:51 +0100
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Martin Butkus <y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de> wrote:

>I need some pointers to info about device driver programming. 
>The thing is, I've found a device driver for my scanner written
>for BSDI 2.0 (it's a Mustek Paragon 600 BTW) and would like to 
>port it to FreeBSD. 

I think there's a scanner driver in FreeBSD-current.  Perhaps you can
use this one as a template.

Sorry, nobody started writing the "FreeBSD kernel hackers cookbook"
yet. :)
-- 
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. ;-)