From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 10 8:38:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4530F14BC3 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id LAA55850; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:38:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:38:47 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: Jon Nicoll Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: porting Linux kernel module to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <1E485299309FD211A2100090271E27A401809895@symnt3.cadence.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Jon Nicoll wrote: > Hello There > You may have heard that Creative Labs have put the source for the > Linux driver for their SoundBlaster Live audio card under GPL > (http://opensource.creative.com). This takes the form of a kernel module for > Linux. > > I'm interested in doing (some of? ;-o) the work of porting this module to > FreeBSD. I'm not very familiar with some of the issues involved in such a > venture; could someone point me to a source of information on the issues > that might be involved in doing this? I'm a reasonably experienced hacker > but only moderately familiar with either FreeBSD(I have 3.1) or Linux(SuSE > 6.2, as it happens). > > Pointers to FAQs or links very welcome - the FreeBSD site which discusses > such things is more about making the distribution, and I'm not that far > along yet... > I wish you the best of luck with this. You might also want to mention something on freebsd-current, though, since the sound drivers on -current are different than on -stable (ie. you may be needing to upgrade to -current to do your development if you want your work to be incorporated into the source tree). I'm not 100% sure what the differences are (I only read -current, run -stable :) ), but I'm sure someone there could probably point you in the right direction. Nonetheless, when you do get something going on this, take a second an mention your project on http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ so that others interested might know that a) someone is already working on it and b) offer any assistance you may need. Good luck, Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Director of Technical Services, ALC Communications http://www.alcnet.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message