[haiku-development] Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

"Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> >  I thought that the network layer was only a
> > temporary solution until native drivers were
> > available on Haiku.
 ...
> This was done in the case of ethernet drivers because
> they're usually relatively small and self contained. For 
> other classes of drivers you'd probably have to extend
> the compat layer to cover significantly more of the FBSD
> kernel's services, at which point reimplementing those in
> haiku terms would likely be more work than to just use
> the BSD driver as a reference to write a native one.

Aren't serial interface cards about the same complexity/size as nics? 

Is anyone here truly interested in writing native drivers for this 
class of hardware?

/Jonas.

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