Subject: writing a device driver
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Gary Thorpe <gat7634@hotmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/15/2002 23:06:26
Hi,
I have begun writing a new devie driver for the netbsd kernel. I am at a
stage where I want to compile in the current code I have to see whether or
not the probe and attach functions work before going further.
I added my files to the kernel source and modified the file
/usr/src/MYTREE/conf/files, /usr/src/MYTREE/arch/i386/i386/conf.c, and
/usr/src/MYTREE/dev/isa/files.isa to add lines for the machine independent
code, added the device to the port-specific cdevsw table, and added lines
for ISA bus attach code (MYTREE is a recursive copy of the kernel source
tree, since I do not want to mess with the tree for working kernels for my
machine). When I attempt to build a kernel, I get the following message:
ioconf.o: undefined reference for xxx_ca (where xxx is the name of the new
device)
What am I doing wrong/forgetting to do? I have followed the steps outlined
in documentation found on netbsd.org as closely as possible.
Also, would anyone happen to know of where I could find documentaton on the
formats/structures of the files I modified above? I would like to know what
I am actually doing vs. looking at other drivers and blindly copying and
hoping it will work...
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