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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Books on writing drivers?
Date: 3 Sep 96 07:32:50 GMT
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In <50eutv$c58@nadine.teleport.com> bharbour@teleport.com (Bob Harbour) writes:
>I am interested in learning to write drivers for Freebsd and was wondering
>if anybody had suggestions about good texts. Most of the driver books I
>have seen are for AT&T flavors, but I was hoping to find some for BSD.
>I have done a lot of programing in embedded systems, so handling hardware
>is not a problem for me. Does anybody have any favorites or suggestions?
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. "UNIX Programmer's Manual, Seventh
Edition, Volume 2". Revised and Expanded Version.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1983
George Pajari, "Writing Unix Device Drivers"
Addison Wesley 1992
Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver"
John Wiley & Sons 1988
Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver"
Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons 1992
Leffler, McKusick, Karels, Quarterman, "The Design and Implementation
of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System"
Addison Wesley 1988, corrected Reprint 1989
Leffler, McKusick, "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
Operating System, Answer Book"
Addison Wesley 1991
Maurice J. Bach, "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
Prentice-Hall 1986
Sun Microsystems Inc., "Writing Device Drivers"
Part No. 800-3851-10, Revision A of 27 March 1990
Hewlett-Packard Company, "HP-UX Driver Development Guide",
Part No. 98577-90013, First Edition 07/91
W. Richard Stevens, "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment",
Addison Wesley 1992
Phillip M. Adams, Clovis L. Tondo, "Writing Unix Device Drivers in C",
Prentice Hall 1993
Berny Goodheart, James Cox, "The Magic Garden Explained",
Prentice Hall 1994
Peter Kettle, Steve Statler, "Writing Device Drivers for SCO Unix"
Addison Wesley 1993
Tim Burke, Mark A. Parenti, Al Wojtas, "Writing Device Drivers,
Tutorial and Reference", Digital Press 1995
McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman, "The Design and Implementation
of the 4.4BSD UNIX Operating System"
Addison Wesley 1996
Hope this helps,
hellmuth
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