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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:20:10 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pascal@pascal.org (Freeman P. Pascal IV)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, pascal@calvary.pascal.org
Subject:   Re: Maxpeed SS8 drivers...
Message-ID:  <199704030150.LAA05710@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <333D9299.31DFF4F5@pascal.org> from "Freeman P. Pascal IV" at "Mar 29, 97 02:07:21 pm"

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Freeman P. Pascal IV stands accused of saying:
> 
> I was curious if anyone has written Maxpeed SS8 drivers for 2.1.x or
> 2.2?  I've recently come into possession of four boards and being
> able to run them with FreeBSD would be a boon to me.

I don't know of anyone that has.  If you are interested in having 
a driver written/modified, I am available for that sort of work
and my rates are quite reasonable.

> As a side questions.  Just how hard is it to translate Linux drivers
> for serial equipment for use with FreeBSD.  I do have the latest
> Linux drivers from ftp://ftp.maxpeed.com.

Generally, not easy at all.  The best way to go is normally to use the
Linux driver as a reference for "how to make the hardware dance", and
rework one of the BSD serial drivers to make it match.

> -Freeman

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