From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 2:23:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373B537B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A7DD43E4A for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 28697 invoked by uid 1031); 25 Sep 2002 09:20:18 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:20:17 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Nate Lawson Cc: Brooks Davis , Paolo Pisati , FreeBSD_Hackers Subject: Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =) Message-ID: <20020925092017.GL23343@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Nate Lawson , Brooks Davis , Paolo Pisati , FreeBSD_Hackers References: <20020924110929.A18850@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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