Re: Porting driver from Linux

2008-10-19 Thread Ross Cameron
Im afraid that you're going to have to re-write the driver from scratch (without being "inspired" by the GPLed one) the OpenBSD kernel developers wont include GPLed code into the core of the OS. Are you 100% sure that the driver doesn't already exist in -current? What piece of hardware is this? O

Porting driver from Linux

2008-10-19 Thread Maciej Piechotka
I'd like to port a driver from Linux and/or write it from scratch. 1. How hard is it? It would be my first touch with kernel programming (well - may be except Hello World modules). 2. Is it anything I have to know (except C, APIs and GPL-license)? Best regards -- I've probably left my head... som