Interrupt routing and friends ...

Bill Hacker wbh at conducive.org
Sat Nov 8 12:56:21 PST 2008


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 03:13:12AM +1100, elekktretterr at exemail.com.au wrote:
 If so
which BSD is best?  I read in the archives Matt stating that there are
stilll problems in fbsd and IIRC  someone else mentioning NetBSD as
being better at this.
Linux?
Linux just has some quirks more and a completely different architecture.
It will be a lot of work to rewrite anything based on the linux source.
Keep in mind that you can't copy due to GPL.
Joerg


It might be worth a look at recent OpenBSD releases.

The license fits, and it has proven to "JFW" [1] on all of the very wide 
range of hardware we have here.

Bill

[1] As has OpenSolaris, Vector Linux, Prex, Minix, and Menuet.
. .. and damn little else. FreeBSD, DragonFly and several 'mainstream' 
Penguins included in the rejects.





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