From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 17 09:28:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA06687 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 09:28:08 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA06676 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 09:28:06 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA08143; Mon, 17 Apr 95 10:21:06 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504171621.AA08143@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? To: hasty@star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 10:21:05 MDT Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, todd@water.eng.mcmaster.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504162217.WAA01752@star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Apr 16, 95 10:17:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On the other hand, I have suggested many times that the loadable > > kernel modules should have their loader code in the kernel, and > > this is one example why: to enable demand loading in a general > > case seperate from consideration of the symbol tables to enable > > the loading od Novell ODI drivers for servers. These are protected > > mode driver that exist for nearly all ethernet and many token ring > > and other odd cards. > > > > That UnixWare does it proves it is possible. Kurt Mahon has hinted > > that he might be able to get some of his code for this released. > > Do you mean that we can get hold of ODI drivers (binaries) and used them > under FreeBSD? Yes, if: 1) They could be loaded into kernel memory. 2) Their external symbols are appropriately resolved. Both of these require knowledge of the binary file format. Kurt Mahon is the engineer who wrote the code for UnixWare. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.