Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:42:36 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding device to FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE Message-ID: <200808011442.37048.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200808011213.41335.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <6A7AD37501FA4199B44BBBB03B0EE368@jarasoft.net> <200808011213.41335.lists@jnielsen.net>
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On Friday 01 August 2008 12:13:41 pm John Nielsen wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2008, Jack Raats wrote: > > I would like to add the zyd device to FreeBSD. > > The zyd driver allready is in FreeBSD 7.0. > > Which steps do I have to take to add the zyd device to FreeBSD? >=20 > Sorry, what are you asking? What version of FreeBSD are you using and wha= t=20 > do you need help doing? =46rom the subject line, I imagine Jack is using 6.3-STABLE and wants to=20 backport the driver from 7.0 to 6.3. Backporting most drivers from 7.0 to= =20 6.x isn't a big deal (can generally just copy over and compile). However,= =20 zyd(4) is a wireless driver and the net80211 wireless networking stack is=20 quite different in 6.x vs 7.0, so that is where it would be complicated to= =20 backport the driver. I'm not intimately familiar with net80211 in either=20 branch, so I'm unsure how much work the backport would be. =2D-=20 John Baldwin
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