Gary Gendel wrote: > This is the next incantation of the Intel chipset, BSD has reverse engineered > a driver that will be released in OpenBSD 4.0. Anyone tight with the BSD > group to see how difficult it would be to port to OpenSolaris? I might > attempt it, if I can find the source and knew how the heck to go about > porting it. I've only written one driver for Solaris (for a device on the > sbus) and that was back in 1990. > > My selfish motive is that I want OpenSolaris on my Thinkpad Z61 coming next > month. > > Gary > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
I suspect porting the driver wouldn't be too hard. (I've worked on wireless code for both NetBSD and Solaris.) The bigger issue, is whether it could be integrated or not. The problem with these reverse engineered drivers is that they may or may not stand up to certain legal tests. OpenBSD doesn't have to worry to much about being a legal target from Intel, but I suspect Sun has to tread a lot more carefully. It would be far, far more likely to be acceptable if Intel were to come out and bless the OpenBSD driver as being legally acceptable. I'm not sure this is likely to happen. -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
