[illumos-Developer] Solaris Future?

[Garrett D'Amore]

For some types of drivers, the Writing Device Drivers book is your best starting point.  For others, you will need to look at sample source and possibly Google for PSARC case details describing the APIs.  Framebuffer drivers are unfortunately one of the ones that are almost completely undocumented.

  -- Garrett D'Amore

On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Gary Mills <mills at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 09:37:58PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> 
>> This is actually much harder to do well than it sounds, owing mostly
>> to the fact that other OS' don't always have a narrow or even stable
>> driver ABI.  Windows does a better job here than any of the free
>> OS', but it is so unlike the others that its the hardest to adapt
>> to.
>> 
>> Add to that the extra support headaches of dealing with "foreign"
>> code, and I really think its best to have decent native open source
>> drivers where possible.
>> 
>> Mostly our problem now is resourcing... we need more volunteers!
> 
> Where do we start in writing illumos drivers?  Is there a document and
> a set of examples?  I'd like to help, but I understand that I'd also
> need both the associated hardware and the specifications for that
> hardware.  The selection of hardware I have now is quite limited.  I
> have no specifications for it.
> 
> -- 
> -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
> 
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