Driver Development Books?

From: Pete (TheManifestShadow_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/11/05

  • Next message: Sergey Babkin: "Re: Driver Development Books?" 
    Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:47:28 -0400
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    Hello,
        I have what may seem to be a silly question, but I cannot find any
    other decent resources on the web. >.< The problem that I am having
    right now is
    that I have a fairly nice graphics card which, for the moment is only
    supported on Windows Operating systems, and old 2.4 Linux kernels. So
    far there has
    not been much positive outlook in porting the drivers to *BSD or any of
    the 2.6 kernels that I know of, let alone 64-bit drivers for non-Win OSes.

    So I guess that makes my question fairly simple then; I know that driver
    code is written in C (which I am learning currently) but thats about all
    I know. I'm probably
    not far off when I say that I need more to go on. Yet, from looking at
    Amazon.com I have not been able to find any books on writing driver
    code, which is really
    frustrating.

    One of my security related books, Rootkits, tells me about how to write
    drivers for a completely different reason so I know a bit more about how
    they work but again
    the code involved does not interface hardware to the OS, just injects a
    custom application. The other tool that I will probably use is Jungo,
    which is a nice-looking
    application which automates a skeletal version of the driver you need,
    but again, I would not know how to fill it out.

    Any help is appreciated.

    -Pete

    "Rootkits" Book Homepage -- http://www.rootkit.com/
    Jungo WinDriver -- http://www.jungo.com/windriver.html
    _______________________________________________
    freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list
    http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
    To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"

  • Next message: Sergey Babkin: "Re: Driver Development Books?"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Why do PC manufacturers not supply O/S CDs with there products
      ... Why on earth did I never get the offer of an O/S disk to come with the laptop? ... for re-installs, drivers and networking etc... ... ASCII a silly question, get a silly ANSI ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
    • Re: The Speed Trap - BBC1 Scotland
      ... > Matt B wrote: ... What a silly question. ... > Drivers need to slow down and adapt to specific conditions. ... > Hint: the speed limit is a maximum, not a target come what may. ...
      (uk.rec.cycling)
    • Re: XP driver 56k fax message modemfax ext
      ... >I,m looking for good drivers for external modem 3com US Robotics, model "56k ... ASCII a silly question, get a silly ANSI ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev)
    • Re: XP driver 56k fax message modemfax ext
      ... >>I,m looking for good drivers for external modem 3com US Robotics, model ... > ASCII a silly question, ...
      (microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev)