From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 29 22:02:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22229 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atl.bellsouth.net (mail.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22222 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from remote.my.domain (root@host-209-214-69-192.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.69.192]) by mail.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA00568; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:02:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.atl.bellsouth.net (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by remote.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA16859; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:02:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199809300502.BAA16859@remote.my.domain> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Eugene M. Kim" cc: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List Subject: Re: Win95/NT drivers on FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:27:52 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:02:14 -0400 From: Jerry Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Well, this is just a wild idea, so please don't throw a stone at me :-) Ok... > If we could provide a device driver framework that is identical to M$ > Win95/98 DDK's I don't think it's practical (or that useful). The whole underside of Windows9x is fundamentally different from the way the FreeBSD kernel works with a lot of old DOS compatibility hacks thrown in too. Even if hacked into FreeBSD by some work of genius, it would likely upset things for the worse. I'd rather see what happens with the various *nix-oriented device driver standardization efforts. Vendors are starting to respond to our market better anyway. When did you last ask ^your^ vendor to support FreeBSD? :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks jerry.hicks@glenayre.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message