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Date:      Mon, 2 Jan 2012 19:10:29 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation
Message-ID:  <201201021910.29105.lobo@bsd.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20120102214243.GA86702@sputnjik.localdomain>
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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)



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