From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8fc8d5435bb45a7ddc7289608970ed6a@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:49:00 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow In-Reply-To: <775b8d190612120151s53a2a530h93db8bb2afdb0408@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f1300ac2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I mean, having no experience with hardware programming, a desire i > have is to read something to learn from other's experience on writing > software for manage hardware. (something like the practice of > programming but focused on hardware issues). possibly a good way is to read existing Plan 9 drivers it isn't really a deep mystery, except for some of the peculiar interfaces on the x86. i usually blunder my way past them, myself.