From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 18 7: 6:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.heartland.ab.ca (jasper.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FBB14CFB; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Received: from freebsd.hagens.ab.ca (ppp2.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.130]) by jasper.heartland.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA25826; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:58:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hagenhomes.com (dkwiebe.hagens.ab.ca [10.0.1.3]) by freebsd.hagens.ab.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA05690; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:16:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Message-ID: <37BABED4.C2A966AE@hagenhomes.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:10:28 -0600 From: Darren WIebe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mark+freebsd@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD References: <19990818145850.E17189@xaa.mpn.cp.philips.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello: One other thing that you might be interested in is the fact that Freemware has its first release out. ***It is not nearly complete yet*** They have something out though, and it needs people to work on the code for FreeBSD. Right now they are working mostly on the Linux stuff where it is OS sensitive. However, it would be appreciated if somebody wanted to work on the FreeBSD specific code. Darren Wiebe > I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare > requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be > portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly > that seems to be using Linux specific stuff, brrr..) But anyway: it > looks feasable. > > Is anyone already working on this, or are some people interested in > helping with this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message