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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:30:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        gross@clones.com (Glendon M. Gross)
Cc:        saper@system.pl (Marcin Cieslak), jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason C. Wells), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Warner's PCI Modem Driver
Message-ID:  <200001271830.KAA77545@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000127082044.30216B-100000@mail.clones.com> from "Glendon M. Gross" at "Jan 27, 2000 08:24:22 am"

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> 
> If Winmodems are so available, would it be possible to hack the
> proprietary code and develop a KLM which could talk to the WinModem's DSP?

Ahhh.. not unless your ready to provide a full emulation of the
windows API as you never know what these drivers might call.
Also you need to do hard real time to be able to run a soft DSP,
and we are a very long ways from hard real time.  (So is windows,
thats why these modems tend to be so problematic on systems under
heavy loads).

> I know nobody wants to do this, but considering the availability of the
> junky winmodems, it sure would be nice if there were such a module [short
> of emulating MS-Windows in the background!]  

Your going to have to emulate a rather larger portion of MS-windows to
get them to work :-(.

> Forgive me if it's not possible, but I'm starting to believe that "FreeBSD
> can do anything."  --Glen Gross
> 

Anything that is reasonable to do... :-)

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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