From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 13:30:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14591 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:30:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA14551 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yXAPk-00075j-00; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:03:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:03:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: lcremean@tidalwave.net cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting from BSDi to FreeBSD -- how difficult? In-Reply-To: <19980506143301.16865@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, Lee Cremeans wrote: > I have been asked to port a PCI device driver from BSDi 4.0 to FreeBSD > -stable...how difficult would this task be? I've not worked with BSDi > before, and I know there are some similarities, ut I want to know if this > would be something that would drown me. > > Thanks.. Depends a lot on the type of driver: ethernet, SCSI, sound, serial, etc. I expect that ethernet would be the easiest, but I don't know much about BSDI 4.0 > -- > Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) > A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did > $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | lcremean@tidalwave.net > FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) > My home page: http://st-lcremean.tidalwave.net/~lee | finger me for geek code > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message