Year of Publication: 2012
Author: Joseph Kong
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 978-1-59327-204-3
Series: A Guide for the Intrepid
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 352

Device drivers make it possible for your software to communicate with your hardware, and because every operating system has specific requirements, driver writing is nontrivial. When developing for FreeBSD, you've probably had to scour the Internet and dig through the kernel sources to figure out how to write the drivers you need. Thankfully, that stops now. In FreeBSD Device Drivers, Joseph Kong will teach you how to master everything from the basics of building and running loadable kernel modules to more complicated topics like thread synchronization. After a crash course in the different FreeBSD driver frameworks, extensive tutorial sections dissect real-world drivers like the parallel port printer driver.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Building and Running Modules
Chapter 2: Allocating Memory
Chapter 3: Device Communication and Control
Chapter 4: Thread Synchronization
Chapter 5: Delaying Execution
Chapter 6: Case Study: Virtual Null Modem
Chapter 7: Newbus and Resource Allocation
Chapter 8: Interrupt Handling
Chapter 9: Case Study: Parallel Port Printer Driver
Chapter 10: Managing and Using Resources
Chapter 11: Case Study: Intelligent Platform Management Interface Driver
Chapter 12: Direct Memory Access
Chapter 13: Storage Drivers
Chapter 14: Common Access Method
Chapter 15: USB Drivers
Chapter 16: Network Drivers, Part 1: Data Structures
Chapter 17: Network Drivers, Part 2: Packet Reception and Transmission

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