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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to write a driver...
Date: 6 Nov 94 12:39:13 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <1994Nov5.231633.13495@rhrk.uni-kl.de> weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) writes:

>I am indeed looking for information on drivers for 
>FreeBSD, an would appreciate if somebody good point me to some starting
>points for reading. 

UNIX AND UNIX DEVICE DRIVERS
----------------------------

	Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. "UNIX Programmer's Manual, Seventh
		Edition, Volume 2". Revised and Expanded Version.
		Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1983


	George Pajari, "Writing Unix Device Drivers"
		Addison Wesley 1992


	Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver"
		John Wiley & Sons 1988


	Janet I. Egan and Thomas J. Teixeira, "Writing a UNIX Device Driver"
		Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons 1992


	Leffler, McKusick, Karels, Quarterman, "The Design and Implementation
		of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System"
		Addison Wesley 1988, corrected Reprint 1989


	Leffler, McKusick, "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
		Operating System, Answer Book"
		Addison Wesley 1991


	Maurice J. Bach, "The Design of the UNIX Operating System"
		Prentice-Hall 1986


	Sun Microsystems Inc., "Writing Device Drivers"
		Part No. 800-3851-10, Revision A of 27 March 1990

	
	Hewlett-Packard Company, "HP-UX Driver Development Guide",
		Part No. 98577-90013, First Edition 07/91


	W. Richard Stevens, "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment",
		Addison Wesley 1992


	Phillip M. Adams, Clovis L. Tondo, "Writing Unix Device Drivers in C",
		Prentice Hall 1993


	Peter Kettle, Steve Statler, "Writing Device Drivers for SCO UNIX,
		A Practical Approach", Addison Wesley 1993


Hope this helps,
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
 Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined (Murphy)
   The opinions expressed above are my own and not the opinions of anybody else