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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development Projects
In-Reply-To: <19980505163755.R4777@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 5, 98 04:37:55 pm"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:11:37 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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Greg Lehey writes:
> > The list of FreeBSD Development Projects growing. I'm sure there are
> > many FreeBSD projects which are still not listed. If you miss your
> > project please sent the name of the project and the URL to
> > www@freebsd.org or to me.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#development
> >      * MultiMedia
> >      * Home Automation
> >      * The "PAO" Mobile Computing page
> >      * Symmetric MultiProcessor Support
> >      * Porting FreeBSD to Sparc systems
> >      * Porting FreeBSD to Alpha systems
> >      * Java on FreeBSD
> >      * FreeBSD Mozilla Group
> >      * PicoBSD: Fitting FreeBSD on a single floppy
> >      * DEVFS
> >      * soft update code
> >      * FreeBSD Resources for Newbies
> >      * FreeBSD Hardening Project, a more secure environment
> >      * FreeBSD Documentation Project
> >      * The FreeBSD Token-Ring Project
> >      * i4b: ISDN for FreeBSD
> >      * FreeBSD USB driver development
> >      * Drawbridge, a firewall package
> >      * Secure MobileIP via IP Sec

Isn't there a project to clean up & abstract device drivers
from the bus architecture of the device? That would make the
same driver work well whether PCI, ISA, PnP, .. or whatever?

If not, shouldn't there be? :-)

-Archie

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