On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:02 -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Stephen torri wrote: > > > For example I have a few ethernet cards setting around which I believe > > already have an existing driver written in the kernel. I could use those > > because they give me at least another driver that is known to work in > > order to compare my driver against it. Is an ethernet card too hard to > > start out with as the first driver? > > I strongly suggest you start out with something even simpler, like a > parallel port driver. These devices are ubiquitos, much simpler than > anything else, cheap to test, and extremely well documented. Sure, > you'll be re-inventing the wheel, but nowadays, any device that doesn't > have a driver already is probably extremely complicated. The only > exception might be simple USB devices, but a USB "client" driver isn't > much of a driver anyway. What will I need to test out my driver? Stephen -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
