Subject: Re: windows drivers on netbsd?
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/06/2003 07:57:21
In message <Pine.NEB.4.53.0311060956140.21283@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Wojciech P
uchar writes:
>>
>> Just my .00002 cents here ;-)
>>
>> When somebody writes a "native" NetBSD driver for a device, we can use
>> it on other achitectures as well (imagine all the stuff which is common
>> on the PCI and works on x86,alpha,power,mips,...).
>
>exactly and it works much faster than windows drivers....
>
We all agree that native NetBSD drivers are much better.  But they're 
not always available, either because no one is interested in writing 
one or because the manufacturer won't release enough information to 
permit one to be written.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb