[laptop-discuss] HW Driver for running Linux in a Xen Domain on an Acer Ferrari 4005

[Garrett D'Amore]

Bernd Schemmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I successfully installed Xen on my Ferrari . Well, more or less succesfully because Solaris in the Dom0 works but I can not create a Linux Domain (but that's another story; I posted a question in the Xen forum on how to resolve this; http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=11472&tstart=0)
>
> My goal for using Xen is: 
>
> Using Solaris in the Xen Dom0 and create one or more Linux Domains. Then I want to assign the hardware that is currently not supported by Solaris to one of the Linux Domains and use it there.
>
> According to the original Xen documentation  this should be possible.
>
> My question now is:
>
> Does anybody know where I can get working driver for the following hardware:
>
> - Bluetooth
> - SD Card Reader
> - Internal Modem
> - Infrared
>
> TIA
>   


Bluetooth: no drivers exist for Solaris yet.  Someone could port the
excellent NetBSD work done by Iain Hibbert, but it would be quite a
large task.

SD Card Reader: there are two varieties.  One is accessible by USB, and
should just appear as an ordinary USB mass storage device.  The other
variety uses some kind of embedded chip (I have experience with the
Winbond chip), and is unlikely to _ever_ have Solaris drivers.  (Writing
such a driver requires access to NDA information and there pretty much
can _never_ be an open source driver unless someone _really_ smart
reverse engineers it.)

Internal Modem: if it is a typical winmodem, then you need a whole lot
of other support, and its unlikely to get support soon, if ever.  One
possible solution if Linux drivers exist might be to write a shim that
uses the Linux driver.  Sort of an NDIS shim for modems. :-)

Infrared: If it appears as an ordinary com port, then it will just
work.  Otherwise, you're probably SOL.

    -- Garrett
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