Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:44:35 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting serial driver Message-ID: <199609260714.QAA14759@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960925133024.1033A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from "Narvi" at Sep 25, 96 01:34:38 pm
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Narvi stands accused of saying: > > I have a question regarding porting a driver for a multiport serial card. > I have access to the source code for SCO. How easy/difficult/possible is > porting it to FReeBSD? I also happen to have access to the full docs of > the card. And no, the card is not already supported for sure, it is > manufactured locally. Depends on how much of a programmer you are, how much of a pig the card is, how much it resembles another card that's already supported, how accurate the documentation is and how much help you can get from the vendor. The SCO code would be useful for establishing procedures (what to do in what order, what hacks are required), but you would be best off picking on the 'sio' driver or one of its derivatives (eg. 'cy') and using it as a framework to build inside. > Sander -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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