Michael T Kotlarski wrote:
You may call me simple minded, but why does there seem to be such a problem
with porting linux device drivers over to openSolaris?
Well the part of the driver that manages the hardware is a good starting
point, but the interface between the driver and the device and between
the driver and the kernel are completely different. So you end up with
a re-write rather than a port.
There have been a number of BSD drivers (LSI RAID for example) that have
been ported to Solaris. A much easier job due to the common origins of
the to OSs.
Ian.
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