Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 22:21:00 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real hackes run -current Message-ID: <199710290621.WAA27221@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199710270113.SAA28015@rocky.mt.sri.com> References: <199710270113.SAA28015@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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In article <199710270113.SAA28015@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> wrote: > My todo list is: > > 1) Work on the suspend/resume stuff until we can get things working > reliably on *all* of the systems. If suspend/resume doesn't work, I > want to know about it so we can make it work. If it works, I want to > know about it as well! > > 2) Bring in additional drivers from PAO. The current list of supported > drivers is pretty weak, and I'd like to 'upgrade' our current drives > (if necessary), and bring in 'safe' changes from PAO that don't > affect desktop stability/functionality. > > 3) Look at the PAO code to see how to support PCI/CardBus machines. I > now understand what's done there, and I think with some slight > changes it can be brought into a maintainable state in FreeBSD. I'd > like some help/feedback on this though, since I know *nothing* about > PCI or CardBus. Good stuff! How about: 4) Add the necessary stuff to the GENERIC kernel so that one can boot from a standard install floppy and then do a network install using any supported PC-CARD ethernet card. Yes, I know there's a hack in the 3c589 driver that makes it work, but the rest of us still have no choice but to use the PAO install floppy. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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