Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:27:18 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, tudor.florea@free.fr Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using linux drivers Message-ID: <01112800271808.69260@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20011127203946.A38048@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1005834019.3bf3cf23bd680@imp3-1.free.fr> <1005837694.3bf3dd7e28fc2@imp.free.fr> <20011127203946.A38048@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In general, no. Linux emulation handles userland processes, but drivers are
in the kernel, and you have to have "real" FreeBSD kernel code in the kernel.
A "driver" in the sense of a prototcol converter that worked purely as a user
process might work, but not an actual hardware driver.
(Eg, ghostscript is a "driver" in a sense for various printers and is a pure
user applicaiton, but it's not a driver in the sense that you mean below.)
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:39, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 04:21:34PM +0100, tudor.florea@free.fr wrote:
> > En réponse à Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>:
> >
> > Thanks for the links but I realise I was not so clear in my question:
> > I have the linux binary objects which are the modem driver and I
> > wanted to know if I can load and use them on FreeBSD.
>
> No.
>
> Kris
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