Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:20:17 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@oltrelinux.com>, FreeBSD_Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =) Message-ID: <20020925092017.GL23343@spc.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209241226590.65697-100000@root.org> References: <20020924110929.A18850@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209241226590.65697-100000@root.org>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:32:40PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > How about updating Alpine (alpine.cs.washington.edu) and fixing a lot of > its lousy hacks (i.e. the sysinit stuff)? Nice idea, but a lot of people will/are use/using Bochs or VMware for this. Mind you, the Alpine approach doesn't require as much other crap (vmnet, vmmon, et al) to operate. And tun(4) could be used as a faux ethernet driver. > Zero copy BPF? This is a seriously nice idea; but won't it require user-space applications to allocate their buffers on page boundaries (assuming MMU page tricks are one underlying mechanism to avoid copies) ? > Port the Linux Rockwell/Conexant winmodem support to freebsd? (Tons of > laptops have this chipset). > http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ I had a brief look at this last month. I should warn you that the Linux driver is simply a wrapper. The actual software modem is a Linux object with encrypted symbols which is linked in to the wrapper to provide the loadable softmodem module. I didn't get further than that - but I imagine that there must be some way to convert the module to something which could be linked in to a corresponding FreeBSD .ko. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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