[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....

George Adkins george at webbastard.org
Mon Feb 18 19:44:20 CST 2002


> > SunFDDI driver?
>
>   The ability to run linux executables is one thing...device drivers are
> a whole different story.  I'd say it'd be easier to write it from
> scratch two or three times over than to write a driver compatibility
> layer.  The internal structures of the operating systems are just too
> different, not to mention how they expect to see and initialize the
> hardware.
>
Oh well, it was just a thought.
Lifting the SMT implementation from Linux sounds like it might be worthwhile, 
it would probably take extensive re-writing to make it useful, though.

George



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