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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Driver Development Docs
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:04:20 -0800
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Bob Fowler wrote:
> 
> I'm looking into porting a NIC driver from
> either Linux or SCO Open Server 5
> to FreeBSD and would like to get some
> info on how to go about it and what needs
> to be done to add the driver to the kernel.

I'd like to say that there are all kinds of documentation for this, but
there isn't. :-(

Right now, the best "documentation" (and what everyone has historically
used) is the source code for other NIC drivers.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project