Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any effort done > to find portable code between different OSes, particularly freebsd and linux? > Specifically, the networking layer could be portable between the

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Aman Jassal
Hello, sth...@nethelp.no a écrit : I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any effort done to find portable code between different OSes, particularly freebsd and linux? Specifically, the networking layer could be portable between the 2 and there could be some set of APIs to

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Rayson Ho
The BSD TCP stack is at least in OpenVMS & QNX: "Parallelism and Performance in the OpenVMS TCP/IP Kernel": http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v4/tcp_ip_scalable_kernel.html http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v4/tcp_ip_scalable_kernel.pdf "Porting the NetBSD IP stack to a microkerne

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread sthaug
> I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any effort done > to find portable code between different OSes, particularly freebsd and linux? > Specifically, the networking layer could be portable between the 2 and there > could be some set of APIs to call into the OS specific

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:55:26 RW wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010 05:09:31 -0700 > > Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any > > effort done to find portable code between different OSes, > > particularly freebsd and linux? > > BSD code has been

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread RW
On Sat, 22 May 2010 05:09:31 -0700 Anjali Kulkarni wrote: > I am not sure the right forum to ask this question - is there any > effort done to find portable code between different OSes, > particularly freebsd and linux? BSD code has been used in most operating systems due to its open licence,