Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:27:10 -0500 From: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO device drivers in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199601121727.MAA13124@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> "SCO device drivers in FreeBSD" (Jan 12, 12:15pm)
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On Jan 12, 12:15pm, "Garrett A. Wollman" wrote: } Subject: SCO device drivers in FreeBSD } <<On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:45:40 -0500, chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu said: } } > 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. } Actually, what I had in mind was not necessarily reimplementing the "historical UNIX brokenness" but perhaps implementing some form of emulation. } -GAWollman } }-- End of excerpt from "Garrett A. Wollman" -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming
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