Jason Thorpe wrote
> 
> On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:02:41 -0700 
>  Netbsd Mailing List <netbsd@vu.vu.com> wrote:
> 
>  > assuming that one has written a driver (call it "whatever.[ch]"), how
>  > does one insert it into the configuration so that it is correctly
>  > placed into the source tree for later compilation?  is there a set
>  > of documents/guidelines for doing this?
> 
> Hm, there's not a manual page on that (yet), but I can answer your question:
> 
> "it depends" :-)
> 
> What kind of driver is it?  Is it ISA, EISA, or PCI?  (I'll assume it's 
> one of those three, since you posted this to port-i386 :-)
> 
> If you wrote an MI ISA, EISA, or PCI driver, you'll need to place it in 
> sys/dev/{isa,eisa,pci}/files.{isa,eisa,pci} ...
> 
> [ e.g. foo is a completely isa driver ]
> 
> # The Zap Products foo card
> device foo
> attach foo at isa
> file	dev/isa/foo.c		foo
> 
> That will get it to pull in foo.c.  Now, if you need to put this in the 
> {b,c}devsw, it needs to have a "flag" generated:
> 
> device foo
> attach foo at isa
> file	dev/isa/foo.c		foo needs-flag
> 
> That will generate a "foo.h" in the compile directory, which will define 
> NFOO to 0 if no foo in config file, or 1 if foo is in the config file.
> 
> Hope that helps ... let me know if you have more questions.
> 

I have one on this topic:

How are major/minor device numbers handelt e.g. for the stallion
driver? Who assigns them and/or what is the criteria?

cheerio Berndt
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