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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!greenie!bustan!saadi From: saadi@bustan.greenie.muc.de (Rudolf Schreiner) Subject: Re: Info on device driver programming needed Message-ID: <DI3AHw.2oy@bustan.greenie.muc.de> Organization: Private References: <87ohur79ci.fsf@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> <47q89d$aji@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <hm.816249742@hcswork.hcs.de> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 14:49:08 GMT Lines: 33 In article <hm.816249742@hcswork.hcs.de> hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: > George Pajari, "Writing Unix Device Drivers" > Addison Wesley 1992 The "simple" book. :-)# The examples are far away from production code. It covers SCO, nothing about BSD. Good introduction. > Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver" > John Wiley & Sons 1988 IMHO almost useless. > Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver" > Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons 1992 Many errors. Sometimes I had the impression that the authors never had seen the source of a real device driver. > Phillip M. Adams, Clovis L. Tondo, "Writing Unix Device Drivers in C", > Prentice Hall 1993 Covers SCO. > Berny Goodheart, James Cox, "The Magic Garden Explained", > Prentice Hall 1994 Helpful for understanding STREAMS. Rudi --