From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 17:50:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F6E16A4CF for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:50:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE1843D31 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1OHoEHf064410; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:50:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC79463D0; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:50:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:50:18 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh Message-ID: <20050224175018.GC75956@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4c90b77205022400506da3d8c8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4c90b77205022400506da3d8c8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:50:16 -0000 --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--