[OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers

[Reginald Beardsley]

Several points:

There's also a 4 port eSATA card based on the Sil3114 from IOGEAR, the GIC704SR5 for $45US.

The Sun development toolset is available for free for Linux and vastly better than gcc/gdb.  However, since Linux requires gcc to compile a kernel and much of the other software, you still need to learn gcc/gdb :-(

C is quite simple if you understand hardware.  C++ is a whole other story :-(

--- On Sun, 2/6/11, Michelle Knight <michelle at msknight.com> wrote:

> From: Michelle Knight <michelle at msknight.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor or writing drivers
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 3:11 PM
> Thanks very much folks; much
> appreciated.
> 
> I think that it was high time that I became conversant with
> C; although from 
> what I've been reading, I don't think there is any chance
> of me becoming to 
> the level required to write drivers I need this side of
> 2012.
> 
> Someone e-mailed me directly and suggested a bok from the
> 1980s on programming 
> in Unix. 
> 
> That'll be a good start.
> 
> My main client is Linux, so I guess I'll be learning with
> the GNU compiler 
> until I am able to get to a standard where I can start
> programming on OI.
> 
> When I was in my late teens I programmed in 8086 and
> Pascal, so ... well ... I 
> guess this is it. I need to find those sandals and find out
> the updated phone 
> number for Pizza Hut.
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