Subject: Re: Device driver autoconfig question
To: Hauke Fath <saw@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
From: Brian R. Gaeke <brg@laird.ccds.cincinnati.oh.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/03/1996 16:38:15
And then spake Hauke Fath as follows:
> >There is a distinct lack of kernel-level
> >documentation of any detail.  I think this is a combination of
> >several things:
> 
> *BSD has a big disadvantage here since it took over an existing code and
> documentation base. The l*nux guys started many things from scratch and
> simply _had_ to document things to keep the project running. AFAIK, they
> now have a doc group, and then there is the kernel hacker's guide. For all
> the stuff that has changed in NetBSD since the merge of 4.4BSD lite, there
> is virtually no information on design ideas besides sparse comments in the
> sources. Sure, you can always try to spot the author and bug him...


Don't know if this is exactly germane but do you guys have the 
latest edition of the Daemon Book?

-BRG

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