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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dhesi.a2i!dhesi From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 9 May 1996 22:43:32 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4mtsek$rbs@samba.rahul.net> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <Dr1wrL.My0@kithrup.com> <3191B103.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi In <3191B103.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >Actually, the information stream has reversed. From what I understand >in talking to Justin Gibbs, the maintainer of FreeBSD's Adaptec driver, >the Linux folks now take his work from FreeBSD and adapt it back to Linux. A generic question: Given that the hardest thing about maintaining two parallel operating systems is the device support, How hard would it be for both Linux and FreeBSD teams to revise their respective oeprating systems to accept virtually identical device driver code? It would be so nice if either could grab a device driver from the other and just plug it in. Maybe through a generous set of macros that allow for low-level differences? Or a little device-driver writing language that translates high-level code into C? -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>