On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:32:40PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > How about updating Alpine (alpine.cs.washington.edu) and fixing a lot of > its lousy hacks (i.e. the sysinit stuff)?
Nice idea, but a lot of people will/are use/using Bochs or VMware for this. Mind you, the Alpine approach doesn't require as much other crap (vmnet, vmmon, et al) to operate. And tun(4) could be used as a faux ethernet driver. > Zero copy BPF? This is a seriously nice idea; but won't it require user-space applications to allocate their buffers on page boundaries (assuming MMU page tricks are one underlying mechanism to avoid copies) ? > Port the Linux Rockwell/Conexant winmodem support to freebsd? (Tons of > laptops have this chipset). > http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/ I had a brief look at this last month. I should warn you that the Linux driver is simply a wrapper. The actual software modem is a Linux object with encrypted symbols which is linked in to the wrapper to provide the loadable softmodem module. I didn't get further than that - but I imagine that there must be some way to convert the module to something which could be linked in to a corresponding FreeBSD .ko. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
