From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 2 4:25:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629FC37B718 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 04:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f32BPWo21101; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 04:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 04:25:32 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Robert Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Development info needed - Stallion Multiport Serial support in 4.3-RC. Message-ID: <20010402042532.Q813@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from robert@chalmers.com.au on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:24:25PM +1000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Robert [010402 04:22] wrote: > > Ok, > is this the right forum by the way.? If not, please point me to the right > one. > > How much similarity is there between BSDI and FreeBSD-4.3. At the same time, probably some, but not much. :) > Will the drivers developed for BSDI in 98 work for FreeBSD? No, they'll need to be ported. > > then a patch to MAKEDEV is also needed. That too, I would try hacking the mkdevnods script in the BSD/os tarball and see if you can get it working. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message