From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 2 22:36:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935331065675 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lobo@bsd.com.br) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504DF8FC15 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl9 with SMTP id l9so10044406yen.13 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:36:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.189.104 with SMTP id b68mr65057543yhn.21.1325542189013; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:09:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from papi.localnet ([189.115.170.253]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm36815208ank.7.2012.01.02.14.09.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:09:48 -0800 (PST) From: Mario Lobo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:10:29 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.6.2; amd64; ; ) References: <20120102214243.GA86702@sputnjik.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20120102214243.GA86702@sputnjik.localdomain> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:36:33 -0000 On Monday 02 January 2012 18:42:44 Nikola Pavlovi=C4=87 wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 03:32:17PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: [troll snipper] > > ..... perhaps could be a porting of the IOKit > > driver system from Darwin, perhaps even allowing Darwin drivers to be > > used on FreeBSD. All of this can go into a kernel module so that if all > > one uses is native FreeBSD drivers made for FreeBSDs normal driver API, > > they won't need to load this subsystem. >=20 > You see, you could have just proposed this in the first place instead of > provoking a flame fest, ranting about, mostly imagined, lack of > documentation, GUI configuration tools and giving condescending lectures > on programmer productivity. Oh well... Right on, Nikola ! But David's paragraph I left in is a "real dream" for me. It is basicaly=20 what's keeping me from using FBSD as my audio workstation. I have an Echo Gina3D card there is simply no FBSD driver for it. But there= =20 are Mac drivers from Echo!. I even too a shot at downloading the framework/API from Echo (windows :( ) but it is just way above me. A colegue from Japan had written a driver for an old Echo Gina 20 bit which= I=20 managed to compile and load (believe it or not) but it was for FBSD 5. I tr= ied=20 to compile it on my FBSD 8 STABLE but it issues too much errors that (again= )=20 is beyond my capacity. But I'm a stubborn one, so I'll try to keep learning from my mistakes. Mayb= e=20 one day a new driver for FBSD will be born. =2D-=20 Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br =46reeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)