From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 14 12:30:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFC437B42F for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12886 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:30:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g1EKTw500769; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:29:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15468.7750.125431.87954@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:29:58 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: 3rd party binary modules X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm working for a company that distributes drivers for its network interconnect boards. We currently distribute all our drivers in source form. As a convenience to our customers, we also distribute binary drivers for many platforms. I'd like to package a binary module for FreeBSD. While I realize that the ABI is stable thoughout the RELENG_4 branch, I'm not familiar with the correct way to build a driver for generic binary distribution. If I build the driver as part of a normal GENERIC kernel build procedure, should I expect it to work in, say, SMP environments? This is a network driver which does ethernet emulation, as well as os-bypass networking using an mmaped cdev & a few ioctls. Its not doing any locking (aside from spls) and its not installing any system calls. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message