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FreeBSD Device Drivers by Joseph Kong

FreeBSD Device Drivers

A Guide for the Intrepid

A Guide for the Intrepid

By Joseph Kong

By Joseph Kong

By Joseph Kong

By Joseph Kong

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May 12, 2012 | ISBN 9781593272043

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    About FreeBSD Device Drivers

    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.

    You’ll learn:
    –All about Newbus, the infrastructure used by FreeBSD to manage the hardware devices on your system
    –How to work with ISA, PCI, USB, and other buses
    –The best ways to control and communicate with the hardware devices from user space
    –How to use Direct Memory Access (DMA) for maximum system performance
    –The inner workings of the virtual null modem terminal driver, the USB printer driver, the Intel PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver, and other important drivers
    –How to use Common Access Method (CAM) to manage host bus adapters (HBAs)

    Concise descriptions and extensive annotations walk you through the many code examples. Don’t waste time searching man pages or digging through the kernel sources to figure out how to make that arcane bit of hardware work with your system. FreeBSD Device Drivers gives you the framework that you need to write any driver you want, now.

    About FreeBSD Device Drivers

    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.

    You’ll learn:
    –All about Newbus, the infrastructure used by FreeBSD to manage the hardware devices on your system
    –How to work with ISA, PCI, USB, and other buses
    –The best ways to control and communicate with the hardware devices from user space
    –How to use Direct Memory Access (DMA) for maximum system performance
    –The inner workings of the virtual null modem terminal driver, the USB printer driver, the Intel PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver, and other important drivers
    –How to use Common Access Method (CAM) to manage host bus adapters (HBAs)

    Concise descriptions and extensive annotations walk you through the many code examples. Don’t waste time searching man pages or digging through the kernel sources to figure out how to make that arcane bit of hardware work with your system. FreeBSD Device Drivers gives you the framework that you need to write any driver you want, now.

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    Product Details

    Category: Technology

    Paperback | $49.95
    Published by No Starch Press
    May 12, 2012 | 352 Pages | 7 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9781593272043

    Category: Technology

    Ebook | $29.99
    Published by No Starch Press
    May 12, 2012 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781593274368

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    Table Of Contents

    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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