From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 10 17:37:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A7637B404 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2B1bUZR087206 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:07:30 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Conexant winmodems (Re: supported) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 11 Mar 2002 13:07:30 +1130 Message-Id: <1015810651.10888.40.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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