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FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

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by kernalix7

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My exposure to FreeBSD has been mostly through routers and firewalls, plus reading about jails and finding the concept genuinely impressive. Always wanted to dig deeper but the existing material assumes you already know the things I was hoping to learn. A book that explicitly starts before that wall sounds like exactly what's been missing. Going to give it a real shot.

by saidnooneever

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theres some questionable quality content in the book, but lets be fair 4.5k pages is hard to manage.
if people dont get too 'anti' about it, it might grown into a good book at some point over editions.
It would certainly be useful to have such a book be complete and maintained (tons of work ofc).
personally id prefer a book that requires abit more prework, like learning C etc. and Unix, so it can be more compact specific to device drivers. 4k+ pages is a lot to chew through and more a thing for reference manuals like intel/amd/acpi manuals etc. (lot of tables and diagrams etc.)

by inatreecrown2

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This is a huge book! I would like to know if a LLM was involved in the writing process or if this is the product of a human.

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by SilentM68

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Never seen a book written that incorporates the programming language as part of the learning material.
Awesome work!
I await the Linux version :)

by marlburrow

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