Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:50:18 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil.h.y@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Drivers Message-ID: <20050224175018.GC75956@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4c90b77205022400506da3d8c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <4c90b77205022400506da3d8c8@mail.gmail.com>
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--XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:50:40AM -0800, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote: > Dear all, > Can freebsd load linux drivers? It cannot load binary Linux drivers. But even Linux can't load all binary Linux drivers, especially between versions. Linus dislikes binary-only drivers, and with good reason. If the source code for the driver is available, it can probably be ported to FreeBSD. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCHhPaEnfvsMMhpyURAuwJAKCP1CaCy89Ttimd6lfakmeoqrKvqwCgp5HN GrD20S85Vyg2IB1h/jc/uGc= =Dq1j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG--
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