From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 09:15:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA22610 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22605 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA24888; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:15:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:15:06 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9601121715.AA24888@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCO device drivers in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199601121445.JAA12145@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> References: <199601121445.JAA12145@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < I know this is a bit obscure but Mach4 added support for > "ununmodified Linux network drivers" into their system. I also understand > that SCO is SYS V and not BSD but I'm curious if anyone ever put any > thought into it. (It would *definately* increase FreeBSD's device > base). SCO (and System V in general) has preserved a lot of the historical UNIX brokenness that 4.3 and 4.4 BSD went to considerable effort to abandon. It would be very difficult, and probably counterproductive, to attempt to built a kernel compilation environment that supports all the old interfaces. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant