kernel programming

[Zera William Holladay]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 neuro at mail.fci.fsu.edu wrote:

> yeah thanks for that, i figured the code was a good start.  Now that I
> know the docs i know where to go, cheers for that
>
> --neuro
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Joseph Koshy wrote:
>
> >> where's a good place for kernel programming documentation ?
> >
> > In no particular order:
> >
> > 1. The FreeBSD Developer's Handbook.
> > 2. The FreeBSD Architecture Handbook.
> > 3. The book 'The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD
> >   Operating System', by Kirk McKusick and George
> >   Neville-Neil.
> > 3. The section 9 manual pages.
> > 4. The source code :).

I like these too (the above is a good list):

man 7 development

gives a nice model and tutorial to setup an environment.

man 7 build

documents some of the /usr/src/ targets for make.

Good luck, Zera Holladay