Linux Drivers

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:50:40AM -0800, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh wrote:
> Dear all,
> Can freebsd load linux drivers?

It cannot load binary Linux drivers. But even Linux can't load all
binary Linux drivers, especially between versions. Linus dislikes
binary-only drivers, and with good reason.

If the source code for the driver is available, it can probably be
ported to FreeBSD.

Roland
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