From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 16:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A980437B400 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:13:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 82A24782D0; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:43:09 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:43:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Gilad Rom Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Porting a device driver from Linux Message-ID: <20020220104309.F59587@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1013872255.23322.4.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1013872255.23322.4.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 16 February 2002 at 17:10:54 +0200, Gilad Rom wrote: > Hi, > > I work for a company that sells Linux boxes that act as ADSL > gateways. Every box has a special PCI card designed and manufactured by > us which includes one ATM controller (A Fujitsu FireStream 50) and 16 > ADSL modems. > > Of course, one of our biggest problems is linux itself, crashing several > times per week and forcing the client to physically reboot the machine. > Also, the userland ATM implementation under Linux is less than > successful, and is giving us many headaches. > > What I would like to do is somehow port the FireStream driver from Linux > to *BSD, and use BSD's Native ATM support, which appears to be much > better, and, naturally, enjoy all of BSD's advantages and strength over > linux. > > So, Has anyone ever done that sort of thing before? What would it take? You'd probably be better off asking this sort of question on FreeBSD-hackers. I don't know of anybody who's done it, but I'd expect it to be pretty complicated, since the kernels are very different. If there's a driver for UNIX, that would be a lot easier to port. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message