policy on GPL'd drivers?

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:43:15AM -0500, David Leimbach wrote:
> >However the idea is that all GPL infected stuff be isolated, allowing a
> >fully working kernel without GPL stuff in there.
> 
> Sounds like a "kernel module" is the way to go then.  Perhaps it could
> exist in the ports tree instead of the mainline kernel sources :).  I
> know I'd be happy with that... the problem is hosting the driver since
> I am sure "patching" it won't be enough to map the linux innards to
> freebsd's.

Depending on the functionality the driver provides, and the kernel API's
it uses; having it as a port may be impractical.  The driver probably
needs to change with the kernel and that is hard to handle as a port.