From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 09:27:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23182 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23162 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA13124; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:27:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 12:27:10 -0500 Message-Id: <199601121727.MAA13124@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> In-Reply-To: "Garrett A. Wollman" "SCO device drivers in FreeBSD" (Jan 12, 12:15pm) from: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "Garrett A. Wollman" Subject: Re: SCO device drivers in FreeBSD Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 12, 12:15pm, "Garrett A. Wollman" wrote: } Subject: SCO device drivers in FreeBSD } < I know this is a bit obscure but Mach4 added support for } > "ununmodified Linux network drivers" into their system. I also understand } > that SCO is SYS V and not BSD but I'm curious if anyone ever put any } > thought into it. (It would *definately* increase FreeBSD's device } > base). } } SCO (and System V in general) has preserved a lot of the historical } UNIX brokenness that 4.3 and 4.4 BSD went to considerable effort to } abandon. It would be very difficult, and probably counterproductive, } to attempt to built a kernel compilation environment that supports all } the old interfaces. } Actually, what I had in mind was not necessarily reimplementing the "historical UNIX brokenness" but perhaps implementing some form of emulation. } -GAWollman } }-- End of excerpt from "Garrett A. Wollman" -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming