MHD.Tayseer Alquoatli wrote:
On 3/27/06, *Bill Baily* <billbailyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:billbailyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,
I'm thinking of writing a driver for a networking
device. I'd simply like to try my hand at driver
development.
What information do I need available to me to write a
driver?
1- fluent C programming skills
2- familiar with hardware concepts
3- familiar with OS portions that handles the hardware layer
(interrupts, IO)
4- familiar with general OS concepts like tasks, scheduling, syscalls ..
4- you have some experiments with Linux kernel programming (loadable
kernel modules at least)
then read and experiment with LDD3 (Linux Device Drivers 3) which is
available online
The question might seem horrendously vague, but I'm
looking for vague-ish answers,
if you start exploring LDD3 you'll find what you need and what you
already know .. i like this book
the book is available on: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
hope this helps
MHD.Tayseer
given my lack of
knowledge in this field. What sort of information to
people normally base their drivers on?
Cheers,
B
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Check out the source code for the e100 intel driver (e100.c) once you
have read "Linux device drivers" book. For few of the intel network
drivers like the e1000 you can find the specs in sourceforge.net.
Sanjay
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