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Date:      Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:15:18 -0700
From:      "David J. Clark" <david.j.clark@lmco.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs
Message-ID:  <39406147.9ACFBCB1@lmco.com>
References:  <bulk.15353.20000608123806@hub.freebsd.org>

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With all the talk about adding support for hot plugging items into the system. Would it make sense to utilize
Apple's work with IOKit in FreeBSD ? I know that this could be a BIG project- but why reproduce what apple is
giving away ? It looks to be a really nice driver architecture. Would the APSL license stand in the way ??? I
think that it would be mutually beneficial - Apple's Intel effort would acquire drivers by the boatload and the
BSD community would have one cool driver development framework. Would the BSD community support such a project
????

More information is available here for the interested.

OS X Kernel -
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/System/Documentation/Developer/Kernel/KernelEnvironment.pdf
IOKit -
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/System/Documentation/Developer/Kernel/Tutorials/2-HelloIOKit.pdf

David



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