Help need

jt james.toy at bc.edu
Sun Feb 5 06:16:37 PST 2006


i could also use some help on the ADB project...i finally got  
interrupts to work on the CUDA PMU...but i suppose you will be able  
to help me on that later down the road... =p....its driving me  
crazy...but i refuse to give up on the project

-jt

On 4 Feb 2006, at 00-47-60GMT-05:00, Joseph Koshy wrote:

>>      I am a newbie to freebsd. But i do like to
>> contribute to the development of this OS. Kindly can
>
> Excellent.  You might want to start with FreeBSD/ia32
> if you are new to FreeBSD.
>
>> somebody tell me where to start. I am a programmer, so
>> i guess i can catch up bitter faster if somebody
>> directs me to proper start. I do like to start with
>> 32bit compilation of this OS and understanding its
>> flow. So I need help here.
>
> Basically do the following:
>
>  * Start with the various Handbooks (Devel, Arch, User)
>    published by the project.
>  * Subscribe to the Freebsd-hackers and FreeBSD-current
>    mailing lists to keep upto date.
>  * Read up on how to mirror FreeBSD's sources and how
>    to build the system from source.
>  * Play around with 'make world' and 'make kernel'.
>
> Once you are upto speed, you can check out your understanding
> of the code by fixing some of the PRs (bugs) in FreeBSD's
> PR database.
>
> You can also contribute by porting applications and
> contributing documentation.
>
> --
> FreeBSD Volunteer,     http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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