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A Linux Driver Project status reportA Linux Driver Project status reportPosted Apr 8, 2008 15:27 UTC (Tue) by mheily (guest, #27123)In reply to: A Linux Driver Project status report by pointwood Parent article: A Linux Driver Project status report This will never happen. Porting code between different kernels is hard enough without the licensing issue. Even if the code was BSD licensed, the OpenBSD developers are totally against the idea of importing device drivers without publicly available documentation. See this KernelTrap article for the reasons why.
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A Linux Driver Project status report Posted Apr 9, 2008 6:31 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link] Well, OpenBSD isn't everyone and yes, I do remember reading that discussion when LDP started. I could imagine some FreeBSD developers would be interested, maybe the primary thing would be to get access to the documentation by signing a NDA. I would think having a company handle the legalese would be nice. Also, even though they would be developing for different platforms (Linux and FreeBSD), they could probably learn something from each other or help each other out understanding the documentation.
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