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From: pete@dswi.com (Pete Kruckenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will BSDI driver work with {Net,Free}BSD?
Date: 9 Dec 1994 23:07:26 -0700
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Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote:
: 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.
Yes, in fact, if you'd like to look at it and see how hard it'd be, it's
at ftp://ftp.std.com/sdl/n2 (and in unix/, I think). I'm working on a
Linux driver for it starting next week, but I'd like to see it work with
NetBSD as well (just in case I need to go to NetBSD, you know).
Pete Kruckenberg
pete@dswi.com