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From: "Eric Smith" <esmithmail@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] Writing device drivers
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:20:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <820bc1260604132020w31c6a07en3361348ccd217ffb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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Wanting to see a Netgear WPN311 (wireless PCI adapter) device driver I'm
considering writing one.  This may be the first and last you hear of this
effort - the last device driver I wrote was in 1979, and I used assembly for
that.  So you other WPN311 users out there -- don't hold your breath unless
you look good in blue.  My C skills are about a 3 on a 1-10 scale.

Tonight I'm looking at plan 9 sources of similar drivers to see how it's
done.  I'll probably be borrowing heavily from someone else's prior work.

Beyond this do you have any suggestions of good reading for an aspiring plan
9 device driver programmer?

Anything will help.

Thanks,
Eric

ps -- this plan 9 is good stuff, guys.  Good work.

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-14  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-14  3:20 Eric Smith [this message]
     [not found] <8a5bd8ccbc2e53557663e2a9020fb26c@coraid.com>
     [not found] ` <820bc1260604140834v2a773ev90ff46b4e6b2427f@mail.gmail.com>
2006-04-14 15:36   ` Eric Smith
2006-04-14 19:33     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-15  4:58     ` jmk
2006-04-15 13:24       ` Eric Smith
2006-04-15 14:16         ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-16 23:00           ` Paweł Lasek
2006-04-15 15:26 erik quanstrom
2006-04-15 23:04 ` Federico Benavento
2006-04-15 23:18   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-16  0:43     ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-04-16 18:03     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-16 18:14       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-16 21:31         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-15 23:34 erik quanstrom
2006-04-15 23:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-16  1:02 erik quanstrom
2006-04-16  2:36 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-16  8:06   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-17  0:11 erik quanstrom
2006-04-17  1:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-17  0:31 erik quanstrom
2006-04-17  1:44 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-17 10:01   ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-18  1:34     ` erik quanstrom
2006-04-18 14:49       ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-18 15:42         ` jmk
2006-04-18 15:59         ` Moritz Kiese
2006-04-18 16:03           ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-18 19:15       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-04-19  3:10 erik quanstrom
2006-04-19  4:02 ` jmk
2006-04-19  4:57   ` lucio
2006-04-19  6:59   ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-19 21:12   ` quanstro

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