Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:35:11 -0800 From: "Don Wallwork" <donwall@cisco.com> To: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting linux drivers to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200003152135.NAA17431@galaga.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:01:54 GMT." <20000315200154.31877@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>
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Scott Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:14:50PM -0800, Don Wallwork wrote: >> Hi- >> >> I found a linux driver for my Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card at: >> http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ > >Which card was that? All of the recent Xircom PCMCIA cards are supported >by the xe driver in 3.x RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100 (RBE-100). I'll give the xe driver a try. > >> Are there any pointers available on porting linux drivers >> to FreeBSD? > >I'm not aware of any, but for network drivers at least it's pretty easy >regardless. To a certain level, a driver is a driver is a driver; they all >have to do pretty much the same things in the same order, BSD and Linux >just express that a little differently. I've typically found that figuring >out how to make the d*mn badly documented hardware behave is way harder >than glueing it into your OS of choice :-) Agreed. Thanks for the info. -Don > > Scott > >-- >=========================================================================== >Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels >Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" >s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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