From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 11 15:12: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F6B37B69B for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f0BNBcm28858; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:11:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:11:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Carl Makin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running Linux kernel modules. Message-ID: <20010111151137.L7240@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:51:18AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Carl Makin [010111 14:52] wrote: > > There are a couple of linux kernel modules that I'd love to run under > FreeBSD. I've always assumed that I'd have to rewrite them substantially > to make that happen. > > Can anyone give me some pointers on how hard it could be to port a linux > kernel module to FreeBSD? Depends on how familiar you are with kernel internals, for instance after taking a quick look at the kernel module needed to run vmware it was pretty clear that someone with the experience and time could have it done in under a week, about 2 weeks later some maniac ( :) ) surfaced who had done just that. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message