site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On Dec 30, 2004, at 8:09 AM, Daryl Warkentin wrote: I can't see it taking too long for Apple to release an update as even the Apple supported firewire cameras will likely move to UDF 2.0, so I will wait. But ... what is stopping someone from porting drivers from other OSes and adding them in as "binary" drivers? Has this been tried? This method would remove much of the worry about licences and provide support for a lot of devices. In order to "have at it" you would need to write entirely new drivers. The apple versions are binary-only, just like they told you on the OpenDarwin list. :-) JP P.S. I would bet that a future release of Mac OS X will have support for UDF 2, so your wait shouldn't be too long. On 29 Dec 2004, at 07:39, Daryl Warkentin wrote: cr _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 16:57, John Davidorff Pell wrote: The driver model (IOKit) for darwin/OSX is sufficiently different from other OSs that doing a simple port as you describe is anything but simple. While a good chunk of the "logic" in each driver could be ported over, all the code that hooks that logic into the OS would need to be replaced with the IOKit framework. Easier said than done. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com