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From: sholder@cse.uta.edu (Shane Andrew Holder)
Subject: HELP: Need info on creating char dev driver for e-net.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 15:19:12 GMT
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I am making my first attempt at writing a character device driver and
would like to find some information on the data structures in the
kernel and on the 3com ethernet board.

I have just purchased _Writing UNIX Device Drivers_ by George Pajari
and it seems to be a good book but it's for System V, and obviously
the internal structures of the two kernels are different.  I also have
the demon book.  Is there any place else I can find information,
specifically on the NetBSD kernel data structures, and some info on
the 3com board.  I would also like to know where to find the
reference made on page 411 of the demon book:

Leffler & Karels, 1986.

S. J. Leffler & M. J. Karels, "Building Berkeley UNIX Systems with
Config," pp. 2:1-32 in _UNIX System Manager's Manual, 4.3 Berkeley
Software Distribution, Virtual VAX-11 Version,_ USENIX Association,
Berkeley, CA (1986).

and the source to config.
-- 
Thanks,

Shane Holder
sholder@cse.uta.edu