Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:08:25 -0500 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> Cc: hackers at FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24 Message-ID: <20030609170825.GA14499@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200306091443.h59EhYOk081417@spider.deepcore.dk> References: <20030609132055.GA14176@sheol.localdomain> <200306091443.h59EhYOk081417@spider.deepcore.dk>
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On Jun 09, at 04:43 PM, Soeren Schmidt wrote:
>
> It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Per the subject, how much work will it be?
> >
> > For giggles, I grabbed the earliest burncd from CVS that supports VCD,
> > saved off my /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd, then:
> > # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/burncd
> > # make all
> > The build puked on a few CDR* definitions, and a bunch of other stuff.
> > Later versions than the version I grabbed want stdint.h (which I don't
> > have), so I shied away from that.
>
> Doing a backport to 4.5 will include changes to the ATA driver in the
> kernel as well as to burncd, and is not a trivial matter...
I feared as much. Would this be the ATAPICAM (?) stuff done for 4.6?
OTOH, I backported the ICH sound support to 4.3; I'm not afraid of
tinkering with the kernel. But p'raps this comparison is apples and
oranges in terms of complexity.
> It would be far easier to upgrade the system to something newer like
> at least 4.7 where the support is already in...
I realize this, of course. I'm hesitant to do this because some of my
hardware is pretty old now, and I fear that the newer ATA/ATAPI sub-
system may not like some of my hardware. I do recall quite a few posts
about problems with the newer subsystem, but then again, quite some
time has passed now.
Lemme ask you this, then: Given a FBSD 4.5 system, is the CAM xpt
module patch (T. Quinot) and cdrecord a [more] viable option? Or am
I basically SOOL?
Thanks,
Dave
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