there was a thread sometime ago regarding "caged drivers" and Dave Presotto had some thoughts on it.
On 9/1/05, Devon H. O'Dell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:31:49AM +0100, Dave Lukes wrote: > > Ron, > > I'm going to regret this, but I'm gonna trust that you're right and go > > take a look at it > > (unless someone else steps up to the plate/wicket). > > > > I'm not going to even announce it, let alone discuss it, > > I'm going to take a look at how much work is involved and either start > > doing it or not. > > > > If I even mention I'm doing it, there will be a flood of "windoze > > sukz", "is it GPLed?" > > and "driver X won't work so it ain't worth doing" messages to distract > > me. > > > > Do you happen to know anything about the beast to get me started? > > > > Cheers, > > Dave. > > Yes. Both Linux and Solaris have used Bill Paul's FreeBSD > work to get `Project Evil' running in these operating systems. > Take a look around at: > > /sys/dev/if_ndis/* > /sys/compat/ndis/* > /usr/src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt/* > > in the FreeBSD source repository for more info :) > > --Devon > > > > > On 1 Sep 2005, at 04:59, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > > >McLone wrote: > > > > > >>But not only this - i am unable to write drivers for some hardware > > >>because of closed specifications (nVidia, various WiFi, Adaptecs etc). > > > > > >speaking of this: > > > > > >if anybody wanted to port the bsd ndis-ulator to plan 9, or use it as > > >a model for a Plan 9 driver, it would be a HUGE service, and would get > > >us tons of drivers. > > > > > >ron >
