Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Devin Butterfield wrote:
> >
> > This is IMHO one of the advantages linux has over FreeBSD. You can run
> > by your local Barnes & Noble bookstore and pick up a copy of "Linux
> > Device Drivers" and start writing code that you actually understand.
>
> And they'll run fine in Linux 2.0.43pre11 or something like that. All
> of those books are out of date by the time they hit the shelf in your
> bookstore, and given the slew rate of Linux kernel APIs, finding any
> of them useful seems pretty doubtful.
>
> Well-written man pages for FreeBSD would certainly be a boon, but printed
> books wouldn't really help that much. There are books available on
> writing BSD device drivers, but the kernel APIs have moved on since then,
> as you've noticed. Perhaps a good project for someone who wants to under-
> stand FreeBSD device drivers would be to update the section 9 man pages?
If people would keep the samples in /usr/share/examples/drivers up to
date then it would be a lot easier...
I have the pci/isa driver skeleton pretty up-to-date, but it doesn't
have any DMA example code, nor does it have any sample code for
pccard or cardbus .
>
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