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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!tau.uac.net!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCO driver and FreeBSD Date: 14 May 1996 23:18:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4nb4d1$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <SON.96May13175907@angrand.prism.uvsq.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E son@cezanne.prism.uvsq.fr (Nicolas Souchu) wrote: > I have a AT8 Chase multi serial IO board with SCO > drivers. Would it be possible to add this board > to my FreeBSD box ? > > I know FreeBSD can run SCO binaries... and drivers ? Sorry to say: zero chance. You might get a sample driver (or even the source for the SCO or SysV driver) from the vendor, but porting a driver just for a single card generally doesn't pay off very much (except as a learning project). Note that BSD and UNIX have got common roots, so the drivers still resemble in some areas (while being entirely different in other areas), which might help you in porting. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)