From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Victor Eibelmann Message-ID: References: <9fee5e4d6eeeb59d19f01ee0c3826647@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Opera6, the phantom browser Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:57:39 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b7edd64c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > The original Linux port was done by the chip development group in their > not so copious spare time. They release binaries only. Are you > saying that someone now releases a source version for Linux? If > so, that sounds like the way to go. Yes and no. They have an .o for i386 architecture, and an OS-dependent layer in open-source. FreeBSD folks ported that - they grabbed an .o, and rewritten the OS-dependent layer (although it does not work sometimes when Linux one works, I think it is a buggy implementation). If there is some way to feed an i386 .o to Plan9 compiler/loader/whatever, or to get a .8 from Agere to work on, that's the way to go. And I think that it would be much more easier to write the middle layer (ok, fileserver :) for Plan9 than a device driver for Linux. Well, and I suppose it will be not fully open-source - it will still have a .8 in the distribution - I guess Agere will agree with such a distribution, but not much more. Also, there is a fully open-source driver, but without signal-processing code. Just like a kind of soundcard attached to a phone line. > > I've heard also that Inferno has such driver (commercial CD only). > News to me. Well, that's what I've saw somewhere on the net for Inferno 2.0 announce. They stated that they fully support Lucent/Agere software modem technology, and so on.