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Subject: Re: [9fans] ndis-ulator for plan 9
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there was a thread sometime ago regarding "caged drivers"
and Dave Presotto had some thoughts on it.

On 9/1/05, Devon H. O'Dell <dodell@offmyserver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:31:49AM +0100, Dave Lukes wrote:
> > Ron,
> > I'm going to regret this, but I'm gonna trust that you're right and go
> > take a look at it
> > (unless someone else steps up to the plate/wicket).
> >
> > I'm not going to even announce it, let alone discuss it,
> > I'm going to take a look at how much work is involved and either start
> > doing it or not.
> >
> > If I even mention I'm doing it, there will be a flood of "windoze
> > sukz", "is it GPLed?"
> > and "driver X won't work so it ain't worth doing" messages to distract
> > me.
> >
> > Do you happen to know anything about the beast to get me started?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >     Dave.
>=20
> Yes. Both Linux and Solaris have used Bill Paul's FreeBSD
> work to get `Project Evil' running in these operating systems.
> Take a look around at:
>=20
> /sys/dev/if_ndis/*
> /sys/compat/ndis/*
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/ndiscvt/*
>=20
> in the FreeBSD source repository for more info :)
>=20
> --Devon
>=20
> >
> > On 1 Sep 2005, at 04:59, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> >
> > >McLone wrote:
> > >
> > >>But not only this - i am unable to write drivers for some hardware
> > >>because of closed specifications (nVidia, various WiFi, Adaptecs etc)=
.
> > >
> > >speaking of this:
> > >
> > >if anybody wanted to port the bsd ndis-ulator to plan 9, or use it as
> > >a model for a Plan 9 driver, it would be a HUGE service, and would get
> > >us tons of drivers.
> > >
> > >ron
>