Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:48:39 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joe@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020902154839.GE2409@spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20020902143030.GK89997@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <20020827123054.GF68243@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020828110956.A23979@nebula-bsd.dyndns.org> <20020830082012.GA18902@spc.org> <20020902103747.GA762@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020902132351.GA2409@spc.org> <20020902133159.GH89997@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020902135406.GC2409@spc.org> <20020902143030.GK89997@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:30:30PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > This is purely speculation as to how USB devices might be handled. > > Maybe someone more in the know can port the usbdevfs (as an aside, is > that a Linuxism? Why not use a standard devfs?) usbdevfs is a Linuxism. devfs's semantics are totally different. Porting it would allow Linux native applications, such as VMware and Linux-compiled userland USB drivers, to operate under FreeBSD. It would also mean that proprietary USB devices could be operated within guest operating systems, and perhaps reverse engineered more easily. I think this is one of the things Joe was driving at. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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