From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 2 8:50: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81CB37B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:50:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83E4B43E3B for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 5318 invoked by uid 1031); 2 Sep 2002 15:48:40 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:48:39 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Stijn Hoop Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joe@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware 3 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020902154839.GE2409@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Stijn Hoop , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, joe@freebsd.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020902143030.GK89997@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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