FreeBSD DRIVER DEVELOPMENT

[Simon Barner]

> >>I have requirement to develop driver for the PCI based hardware 
> >>interface using FreeBSD Unix system. Would you please advise on the 
> >>following:-
> >>
> >>1)    What tools are available to develop driver for x86 machine using 
> >>C?
> >>
> >>2)    Suitable package including the operating system, tools and books 
> >>etc?

A good start are the books available at, esp. the Developer's Handbook
and the Architecture Handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/

In both of them you will find the following reference in the
bibliography:

   Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and
   John S Quarterman, 1996, 0-201-54979-4, Addison-Wesley Publishing
   Company, Inc., The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD
   Operating System, 1-2.
   
Simon
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