Subject: Re: SysKonnect SK9D driver support
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/28/2001 12:58:13
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * B. James Phillippe <bryanxms@ecst.csuchico.edu> [011121 03:30] wrote:
> > If not, what is the general rule regarding porting of drivers from Linux to
> > *BSD?  I would guess that it is "you can't, really", because of the
> > infectious GPL.  But I would love to be proved wrong.
> >
> > Any comments?
>
> You can crib, but you can not copy verbatim (sp?).

The other option is you can make an lkm, where the driver gets loaded at
run time. That's ok too.

Take care,

Bill