Re: Interrupt routing and friends ...

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 03:13:12AM +1100, elekktretterr@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.