On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:27:27PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> > > > I need to port some driver from linux to freebsd and, somehow, > > > > I can't find documentation on kernel locks and mutexes. > > > > There are no man pages, links from handbook are broken, and search on > > > > freebsd site gives nothing (besides the handbook itself). [...] > I was thinking more in terms of device driver information. All > of the "how to write a driver for newbus", "how to write a CAM > driver", "how to use devfs from the kernel", "what XXX to do in > FreeBSD, given YYY in Linux", "how to port a driver from Linux > to FreeBSD", etc., are missing. Well, perhaps not THAT generic information... :) > While it's true that kernel locks and mutexes are documented for > SMPng, he posted to -hackers, not -current, and so he's probably > not interested in -current primitives that aren't available in > the 4.x -RELEASE and -STABLE branches. Exactly my point, thanks! And I'll point again that: - links in handbook DO NOT work (freebsd.org does not have these pages (specifically lockmgr(9), mutex(9)) - and there are no man pages for them in distribution I've even checked this with 4.4-RELEASE at hand -- seen same. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
