From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Jun 4 11:20:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224EE37B404 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id UAA00128 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:20:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g54IA8894333; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:10:08 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:10:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200206041810.g54IA8894333@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <3CFC4770.B70D34F8@cablespeed.com> <20020604050526.GC12360@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: Support for Fujitsu MB89352 X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.scsi To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott Long wrote: >> 2. How hard is it to port the NetBSD driver over? >> a. Are host bus adapter drivers compatible between NetBSD >> and FreeBSD? > Not in the least, tiniest bit. The biggest difference is in the > SCSI layers of the two. Porting it would not be a trivial task. PAO once imported a number of (PCMCIA) drivers that use the NetBSD "scsi_low" API. Perhaps it's not all that hard to setup the new driver on top of that? -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message