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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Dave <dave@hawk-systems.com>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD as multiple line RAS < perle pci-ras?
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dave wrote:

...
> vendor doesn't have a clue about FreeBSD compatibility, however there
> are Linux drivers... was thinking about trying to run under Linux
> compat.
...

  Linux device drivers aren't going to work under FreeBSD.  Something that
access the hardware directly is going to require low-level access,
something a user-mode program can't do easily, or in a portable
emulatable sort of way.

Tom


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