Re: netbsd internals

[Rajasekhar Pulluru <pullururajasekhar%gmail.com@localhost>]

I was looking into specific internals of interrupt handling,
synchronization methods.

Thanks for the pointers everyone. This helps.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius
<rmind%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> Daniel Bolgheroni <dbolgheroni%devio.us@localhost> wrote:
>> > I am a newbie to netbsd. I would like to know interrupt handling,
>> > bottom halves processing and different synchronization methods
>> > available in
>> > netbsd kernel.
>> >
>> > Could someone get me a link that gives pointers to the above?
>>
>> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/books.html
>>
>> Programming section.
>
> These books describe historic/classic BSD and UNIX systems.  If the
> question is about modern synchronisation methods in NetBSD (as opposed
> to other BSDs or obsolete methods), then Solaris Internals would be
> closer to the reality these days.  Otherwise, there are manual pages
> describing the kernel interfaces, e.g. softint(9), spl(9), mutex(9),
> condvar(9), kpreempt(9) and various others.
>
> --
> Mindaugas