Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:56:29 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Somebody to port Linux driver for SDLcomm board(s)? Message-ID: <199906212056.WAA08867@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:49:56 %2B0200." <4.2.0.56.19990617204436.0398a8a0@go2france.com>
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Len Conrad writes: >I'm interested in running an SDLcomm WANic 700 or 800 with its HSSI >interface into a Kentrox E3 IDSU under FreeBSD. I can sign up for the >Linux source coden, or maybe some port developer could sign for it. > >see; www.sdlcomm.com for the range of boards. > >and their distributor for the Linux sector: www.ImageStream-IS.com, who is >responsible for doing the Linux drivers for SDL boards. > >I'd like to have a FreeBSD driver for mid-August. How do I go about >finding somebody to do the port? > I never saw any response to this, maybe I missed it. I think you'll have better luck sending something like this to -hackers or maybe -isp. FreeBSD-questions is not really appropriate and kernel types don't usually hang out here. This sounds like it could be interesting. How do you imagine testing this ? It's rather difficult trying to develop and test a driver by remote control. I've ported a few Linux drivers to FreeBSD and I can tell you that it's a big help having hardware available to test out one's understanding of the (frequently weird and obfuscated) Linux driver code. Of course, it's different if you have good documentation. But in that case there's no reason to base your driver on the Linux code ;-) --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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