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Re: How to code drivers?



On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 19:23, Per Gustav Ousdal wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I figure I need to get somewhere with my C coding, and I was thinking 
> that writing drivers for my unsupported AMIGA hw might be a good way of 
> progressing. Do you have any pointers to resources (books, websites, 
> good source code, other?) that you could reccomend for a newbie to get 
> him started?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Per

The best starting place is the Linux kernel code.  Look at the driver
code for a similar device.   For instance if your going to write an
Ethernet driver, look at the code for other Ethernet devices for your
hardware platform.

-- 
Ray Knight <audilvr@speakeasy.org>



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