Date: 11 Mar 2002 13:07:30 +1130 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conexant winmodems (Re: supported) Message-ID: <1015810651.10888.40.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020311011825.GG1888@pir.net> References: <20020311010127.615EA5D07@ptavv.es.net> <1015809193.10888.29.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <20020311011825.GG1888@pir.net>
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On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 12:48, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO.html > > Anyone looked into a similar port to the lucent winmodem drivers ? IMHO it would be more difficult.. The Lucent stuff is a ELF object blob, and the Linux code was a shim for it. Hence a reimplementation of that shim for FreeBSD was relatively easy (not to say that it was a doddle :). The HSF code is a linux kernel module which makes it more difficult. Generally a shim makes a lot more sense because open source operating systems don't maintain a very good binary compatibility between releases, so having an open source shim linking to a closed binary makes things a lot easier. (You can just rebuild the shim for a new release). --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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