[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Mon Feb 18 19:56:36 CST 2002


>   The ability to run linux executables is one thing...device drivers are
> a whole different story.  I'd say it'd be easier to write it from
> scratch two or three times over than to write a driver compatibility
> layer.  The internal structures of the operating systems are just too
> different, not to mention how they expect to see and initialize the
> hardware.
>

Doesn't the SunFDDI SMT stuff run in userland, though?  Sure, you'd have
to make sure that your driver has the appropriate hooks for the userland
stuff.

Not that mangling the driver to support userland SMT would be any better
than writing your own SMT stuff.



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