From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 17:18:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BCF37C15C for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:18:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david.j.clark@lmco.com) Received: from emss04g01.ems.lmco.com ([166.17.13.122]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA26533 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38890) id <0FVV00O0126LVA@lmco.com> for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:18:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from serling.motown.lmco.com ([129.204.6.42]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38890) with ESMTP id <0FVV00O4A26FCK@lmco.com> for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:18:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lmco.com (mtngt3lvz [129.204.69.23]) by serling.motown.lmco.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA23289 for ; Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:18:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:15:18 -0700 From: "David J. Clark" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs To: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: david.j.clark@lmco.com Message-id: <39406147.9ACFBCB1@lmco.com> Organization: Lockheed Martin MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 (Macintosh; U; PPC) Content-type: text/plain; x-mac-creator=4D4F5353; x-mac-type=54455854; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message