From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13031 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2005 21:38:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13010 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2005 21:38:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.ecoscentric.com) (194.153.168.165) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 Apr 2005 21:38:35 -0000 Received: by smtp.ecoscentric.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8F73365C112; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from jifvik.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67EC965C064; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:38:29 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42681D54.4020704@jifvik.org> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:38:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Sun Cc: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: Porting linux driver to ecos References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on norbert.ecoscentric.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 Jack Sun wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to port the wireless driver source code from linux to > ecos on my platform. > Is it easy to do Probably very difficult indeed. > and what I need to take care in your experience? If you were to start anywhere, I'd suggest updating the FreeBSD stack port to the latest version, which would allow you to incorporate the FreeBSD stack's wireless support. Unfortunately the stack update is required as (if I recall correctly) the code is not standalone but depends on other changes that have taken place in the network stack. Jifl -- --["No sense being pessimistic, it wouldn't work anyway"]-- Opinions==mine