Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:10:29 -0700 From: James Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? Message-ID: <199504172010.NAA14591@sirius.cs.pdx.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 1995 10:21:05 MDT." <9504171621.AA08143@cs.weber.edu>
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This is extremely important if possible. E.g., a lot of current radio lan hardware is only going to have the following driver-types... .odi-client .odi-server .ndis .pkt if you are lucky .maybe unixware .just maybe sco A few years ago I did some work for Intel vis-a-vis NCR wavelan. In general they weren't about to release their src or do anything other than ODI, etc. Pretty typical for esoteric lan cards in the pc market. regards, Jim Binkley jrb@cs.pdx.edu Your message <9504171621.AA08143@cs.weber.edu>: >> > 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.
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