Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:22:11 -0400 From: "Jerry Bell" <jerry@reillyplating.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: unified device driver for unix Message-ID: <199808261820.OAA23710@reillyplating.com>
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It seems that a lot of effort has been put in to making FreeBSD work with Linux, SCO, and now SYSVR4 binaries, which is commendable because it provides commercial software companies with a larger target market without having to port their wares to all the different OS's. My question is this: has anyone looked into, or been discussing device driver support from other OS's? I realize that this is a non-trivial task and would probably require some fundamental changes, but it seems that doing so, at least with Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD (possibly SCO) would be a great benefit for the same reasons as binary compatibility: hardware vendors would be more likely to publish drivers for this series of OS's, as well as those already ported to Linux, et. al., giving FreeBSD users a larger selection of hardware to choose from. Thank you, Jerry jerry@reillyplating.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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