Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:50:45 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: List Free Bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Verizon's EVDO and FreeBSD Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEHCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <69003fc45788390b881503539f5bb3dc@shire.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:chad@shire.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:34 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: 'Mikhail Teterin'; Robert Kim, EVDO-Coverage, Verizon Agent; List > Free Bsd > Subject: Re: Verizon's EVDO and FreeBSD > > > > On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > Robert, > > > > Hmm - The Mac source (I assume your talking Mac OS X) > would probably > > be the best to start with. It might be a very easy port to whatever > > version of FreeBSD was used for the version of Mac OS X you wrote the > > driver for. > > Mac OS X is not based on FreeBSD. Whoah there Chad! Please refer to the following website, guy!: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology _Overview/index.html Note the following statement there: "...Beneath the appealing, easy-to-use interface of Mac OS X is a rock-solid, UNIX-based foundation called Darwin that is engineered for stability, reliability, and performance. Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on FreeBSD 5, --------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > It has a BSD user layer and > compatibility layer and they DO use the FreeBSD userland for > their own, No, a lot more than that, see Darwin. > but the driver level is MUCH different. > I know that, but that is today, not yesterday. Bob stated the "old open source" driver, I took that to mean a version 1.0 driver released for the first ever version of MacOS X. I didn't know this card and service was a new thing. Ted
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