On Monday 02 June 2003 21:15, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> Hi, Ian.
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:16:53 +0000, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> > Please, can you suggest me where to start ? Actually, i would be
> > happy with some "drivers cook-book" or smth like this.
>
> Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote "NetBSD Device Driver
> Writing for Beginners", but, unfortunately it's in German only.
> And the ULR is no longer alive, it seems.

Well, i can try to read it in German :) A reason to finally learn this=20
language.

> > Just get me right, i have lot enough of experience in designing
> > different hardware frameworks for exanple for QNX4/6 OSes, but they
> > are MicroKernel and BSD isn't fit well in this scheme. I just want
> > to start at some point :)
>
> There're some random docs at
>
>     http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/

Gotcha ! At the very beginning, i saw this kernel FAQs but i lost it and=20
couldn't find out :) Thanks for the link. At least this is smth.

> of which you want to read at least Torek's new config paper
>
>     http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/config-torek.ps
>
> [warning, not a dsc-compliant postscript document, should probably
> print and distill ok, though].
>
> While netbsd autoconfiguration has evolved since, the paper gives a
> good baseline to start with (Jason, time for the "new new config"
> paper?).
>
> Also take a look at some existing drivers and how they are split into
> the MI code and the bus glue.  Manual pages in the section 9 should
> help also.
>
> SY, Uwe

Thank Valeriy for your reply, it helps.

// wbr