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Hello All,
I am fairly new to freebsd, but have been asked to
develop a driver for the Matrox Meteor II card. (To the best of my knowledge,
there is currently no such driver in fbsd, please correct me if I'm
wrong..)
My first initial thoughts were, 'ok, let's base it
as much as possible on the Meteor I driver, naturally making changes for
hardware differences where applicable. However, I've just read a couple of
archive entries about a new method for drivers based on a 'newbus'
system.
My questions are: (i) where, if at all, can I find
info/tutorials/examples on driver-writing with this method? (ii) what are the
benefits of the newbus method? (iii) is it still at all acceptable to write
drivers using the old style/method?
If these issues are better posted to another
mailing list, please advise...
Thanks very much in advance,
Jeff Brooke
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