Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 13:49 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > >> I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > >> understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? Drivers for doing what? This is al

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the > drivers be portable? Drivers for doing what? > This is all on a current project I'm working on... Go

RE: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Da Rock > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:26 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Mac osX drivers > > > I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Ma

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi Mac OS X uses a different driver model, I/O kit. It's based on the XNU kernel (BSD/Mach). http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_xnu.html Cheers, Oliver Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Mac osX is bas

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread perryh
> I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I > understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the > drivers be portable? Last I heard, MacOs X userland was based on FreeBSD but the MacOS X kernel was Mach. The part of a driver that deals with the hardware mig