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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: gpalmer@mutara.noc.webspan.net (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: writting device drivers.. Date: 29 Jan 1997 00:58:32 GMT Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5cm7bo$ssn@news.webspan.net> References: <5cjbuv$6bp@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mutara.noc.webspan.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34597 In article <5cjbuv$6bp@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>, ongej@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (eng-jon Ong) writes: > Hi there.. > Can anyone tell me if writting device drivers for the > FreeBSD kernel is more or less similar to writting device > drivers for Linux? Is there any major differences or lots > of minor things here and there? Is there any document or somesort > of HOWTO to point out or get a person started for writting > device drivers and installing interrupt handlers for freeBSD? I believe there is a device driver writers guide, and it can be found somewhere under http://www.freebsd.org/ (probably in developer resources). (sorry, my netscape isn't behaving right now :-( ) Gary