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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How hard to port a driver?
Date: 9 Aug 1995 10:26:46 +0200
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Scott Hazen Mueller <scott@zorch.sf-bay.org> wrote:
> 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.
I think porting a CD driver will be less effort than porting a network
driver (due to the much different network structure).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)