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

[Dave McGuire]

On February 18, James Sharp wrote:
> >   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.

  At least under IRIX it does, yes...the hooks are the issue.

     -Dave

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