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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will BSDI driver work with {Net,Free}BSD?
Date: 9 Dec 1994 21:39:51 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
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In article <3cacf5$jkp@giant.dswi.com>, Pete Kruckenberg <pete@dswi.com> wrote:
>I've been talking with a company who makes a synchronous board that
>has a driver for BSDI (the commercial BSD/OS)? How hard is it to port
>a network driver from BSDI to NetBSD or FreeBSD?
Depends on how intricate it gets with the kernel. Drivers have been
ported from Linux -> BSD, and the kernels are vastly different.
However, if those difference are limited, then the driver wouldn't be
that difficult to port. However, will that company release the source
code to the driver, or the binaries.
Nate
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