Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:43:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porting a device driver from Linux Message-ID: <20020220104309.F59587@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1013872255.23322.4.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh> References: <1013872255.23322.4.camel@dhcp-251.meshek.eh>
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On Saturday, 16 February 2002 at 17:10:54 +0200, Gilad Rom wrote: > Hi, > > I work for a company that sells Linux boxes that act as ADSL > gateways. Every box has a special PCI card designed and manufactured by > us which includes one ATM controller (A Fujitsu FireStream 50) and 16 > ADSL modems. > > Of course, one of our biggest problems is linux itself, crashing several > times per week and forcing the client to physically reboot the machine. > Also, the userland ATM implementation under Linux is less than > successful, and is giving us many headaches. > > What I would like to do is somehow port the FireStream driver from Linux > to *BSD, and use BSD's Native ATM support, which appears to be much > better, and, naturally, enjoy all of BSD's advantages and strength over > linux. > > So, Has anyone ever done that sort of thing before? What would it take? You'd probably be better off asking this sort of question on FreeBSD-hackers. I don't know of anybody who's done it, but I'd expect it to be pretty complicated, since the kernels are very different. If there's a driver for UNIX, that would be a lot easier to port. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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