Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:24:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: hackers at FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24 Message-ID: <200306091724.h59HOW2b008475@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030609170825.GA14499@sheol.localdomain>
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It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > 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. I have no idea about the ATAPICAM stuff, what I'm talking about is the hooks for burncd etc... > > 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. Well, you need the new ATA/ATAPI system for this to work I'm afraid... > 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? I have no idea, others might have the answer to that.. -Søren
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