Re: building device drivers for FreeBSD 7.2+ /AMD64

On Jun 20, 2009, at 00:43 , Max Laier wrote:

> On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:23:33 Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:04:53 -0700
>>> From: "Sean P. Dew" <freebsd.work_at_gmail.com>
>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>>>
>>> Is there any tutorial/book on building device drivers for Free BSD?
>>
>> The canonical one is "The FreeBSD Developers' Handbook"
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/i
>> ndex.html)
>>
>> Also, see the FreeBSD Documentation pages for information on paper
>> books. http://www.freebsd.org/publish.html
>>
>> While a bit out of date, Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil's "The
>> Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System", ISBN
>> 4-7561-4679-1 is still probably the most detailed presentation on the
>> OS internals. Based on FreeBSD 5.2, it is the modern kernel and  
>> driver
>> design, but it is still nearly 5 years old.
>
> You might also want to look at the driver(9) man page and those linked
> from there.  In addition check out jmg's 2006 BSDCan Presentation:
> http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/freebsd.device.driver.slides.pdf
> http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/freebsd.driver.pdf

Also a tutorial I gave at BSDCan this year:

http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/track/Tutorial/146.en.html

And a video of that can be bought here:

https://www.mckusick.com/courses/netorderform.html

Note that this is about network device drivers using the igb (Intel  
Gigabit Ethernet)
driver as the example.

Best,
George