From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 12:52:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.svr.pol.co.uk (mail2.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FE637BB92 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s.mitchell@computer.org) Received: from modem-94.vermont.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.137.96.94] helo=lungfish.freeserve.co.uk) by mail2.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12VKmD-0005CY-00; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:52:21 +0000 Received: (from scott@localhost) by lungfish.freeserve.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00451; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:01:54 GMT (envelope-from scott) Message-ID: <20000315200154.31877@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:01:54 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Don Wallwork , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting linux drivers to FreeBSD References: <200003150014.QAA06063@galaga.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <200003150014.QAA06063@galaga.cisco.com>; from Don Wallwork on Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:14:50PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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