From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Nov 27 21:27:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F1D637B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:27:31 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Kris Kennaway , tudor.florea@free.fr Subject: Re: using linux drivers Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:27:18 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1005834019.3bf3cf23bd680@imp3-1.free.fr> <1005837694.3bf3dd7e28fc2@imp.free.fr> <20011127203946.A38048@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20011127203946.A38048@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112800271808.69260@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 : > > > > 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 ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message