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From: gpalmer@mutara.noc.webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: writting device drivers..
Date: 29 Jan 1997 00:58:32 GMT
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In article <5cjbuv$6bp@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>,
	ongej@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (eng-jon Ong) writes:
> Hi there..
> Can anyone tell me if writting device drivers for the
> FreeBSD kernel is more or less similar to writting device
> drivers for Linux? Is there any major differences or lots
> of minor things here and there? Is there any document or somesort
> of HOWTO to point out or get a person started for writting
> device drivers and installing interrupt handlers for freeBSD?

I believe there is a device driver writers guide, and it can be found
somewhere under http://www.freebsd.org/ (probably in developer
resources). (sorry, my netscape isn't behaving right now :-( )

Gary