Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:01:54 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> To: Don Wallwork <donwall@cisco.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting linux drivers to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000315200154.31877@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200003150014.QAA06063@galaga.cisco.com>; from Don Wallwork on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:14:50PM -0800 References: <200003150014.QAA06063@galaga.cisco.com>
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:14:50PM -0800, Don Wallwork wrote: > Hi- > > I found a linux driver for my Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card at: > http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ Which card was that? All of the recent Xircom PCMCIA cards are supported by the xe driver in 3.x > Are there any pointers available on porting linux drivers > to FreeBSD? I'm not aware of any, but for network drivers at least it's pretty easy regardless. To a certain level, a driver is a driver is a driver; they all have to do pretty much the same things in the same order, BSD and Linux just express that a little differently. I've typically found that figuring out how to make the d*mn badly documented hardware behave is way harder than glueing it into your OS of choice :-) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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