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From: berke@panix.com (Wayne Berke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Will BSDI driver work with {Net,Free}BSD?
Date: 13 Dec 1994 20:40:18 GMT
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In <3cair7$98n@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <3cacf5$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.
As a related question, how difficult is it to port drivers between Free and
Net BSD? I'm thinking in particular of the work being done with the Adaptec
294x for FreeBSD.
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Wayne Berke
berke@panix.com