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From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Help with Linux device on FreeBSD!!
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:31:18 -0500
Organization: N4HHE, Madison Alabama
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In article <4pndoo$8rm@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
(James Raynard) wrote:
> >2) A kernel based device driver -- BIG problems here. I am having lots of
> >trouble compiling it for FreeBSD. Can't find all the header files and
> >functions.
>
> Hmm. You may have some work to do here - I don't think the Linux
> emulator's quite up to faking a Linux kernel development environment
> yet 8-(
>
> The only thing I can think of is having a look at the FreeBSD device
> driver tutorial under http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ and then
> trying to make a judgment on how difficult it would be to port it.
I'm mildly curious what is so magic about the gdb/bdm/parallel port Linux
driver that it requires it to be in the kernel?
--
David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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