From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 10:44:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00634 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00626 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4027.ime.net [209.90.195.37]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id NAA82757; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:43:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990204133817.03dba040@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:41:23 -0500 To: Terry Lambert From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902040915.CAA09079@usr04.primenet.com> References: <4.1.19990202201553.03c2ca30@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 04:15 AM 2/4/99 , Terry Lambert wrote: >> MKLinux, and anything these that requires Open Firmware, makes direct calls >> to the devices individually if I recall. > >It was also my understanding from looking around that the Linux portion >of MKLinux had full source code, but that portions of the MK portion of >MKLinux was available as binaries, only. I'm really not sure.. I thought MKLinux was full source, but I haven't really looked into it.. >Basically, I think there is some hardware left to puzzle out that >you could not expect to get help from Apple when doing the puzzling. Well the thing is, most of "Apple's" Hardware isn't made by Apple. They integrate the machines and make the ROM, but their Video is ATI, their Ethernet (in some cases anyway) is Dayna.. Sure they have some designs they've done (I.e. Geoport modem).. But I think you'll find that you wouldn't need to look to far except for the chipset to find out what drivers you need. >If I'm wrong, I'll be happy to buy an iMac for a porting project, so >let me know... I'd be interested in seeing it port in SOME form, even if just to get a 'base' going to proceed further. I'm not sure how many people are interested in screwing with an idea like this though. PowerPC Chips run RS/6000's for AIX. Although I doubt AIX would run on a Mac unless it was the X86 version in a Softwindows window. :) --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message