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DESTRO · Jul 2, 2002, 09:40 PM

i would like to port some linux drivers to osx, any advice would be great. posting links to driver porting related info would be a big plus as well.
<a href="http://www.totalimpact.com/G3_MP.html" target="_blank">http://www.totalimpact.com/G3_MP.html</a>
if you look around their site youll find that they only provide linux drivers. or, if any one knows could i run this with fink. just curious before i shell out $4000.00 on something i cant run in osx.

Northform · Jul 3, 2002, 09:57 AM

Drivers won't work with fink. Drivers work on a much lower system level. If the drivers were open source you could read the source code, synthisize how they interacted with the device, and write X drivers, but from your comments that would seem to be much more advanced than you are able to tackle.

DESTRO · Jul 3, 2002, 01:15 PM

yeah, im not a unix wizard by any means. those drivers are open source, but it would be outside my skills to port them now. i didnt think fink would work, but i figured it was worth a shot. guess im going to have to either learn to code my own unix drivers or find another product.

Northform · Jul 3, 2002, 10:43 PM

As I see it the board is basicly a multiprocessor add on card so that some of the processes can be offloaded to the processors on the pci card rather than be handled by the main processor.

This would be a much more difficult thing to create a driver for than a typical item since it would have to be very closely linked to the scheduler and other extremely low levels of the OS. Most of the time drivers just go into I/O.