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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: How hard to port a driver?
Date: 8 Aug 1995 04:49:42 GMT
Organization: At Home; Salida, CA
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This is more informational than serious. I checked out some of the Linux docs
online at Sunsite, and they have a driver for the CD-ROM (Wearnes CDD-110) in
my wife's PC. Since I'd like to get her onto FreeBSD someday, I'm toying with
the idea of borrowing the drive and trying to port the driver...
I had a look at some of the Linux networking code while working on another
problem, so I'm well aware that all of the differences come out in the kernel
routines and data structures. What I'm curious about is whether the
differences are well-understood and - possibly - documented somewhere, or
whether I'd be on my own.
I suppose the alternative would be to just run Linux on her machine.
Input appreciated.
\scott