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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:23:23 -0500
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        "Andrew Atrens" <Andrew.Atrens.atrens@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X-ten 
Message-ID:  <199812301623.LAA26381@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 02:50:16 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812300218090.63365-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812300218090.63365-100000@hcarp00g.ca.nortel.com> 

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> > Further hitlist candidates are:
> > 
> > 	X-ten
> 
> Please record my vote for keeping x-ten _functionality_. It's probably a
> good candidate to be kld-omized, but in the meantime works just fine as
> is. The TW-523 device that this driver talks to is central to many
> home automation projects and is sold today as it was when the driver was
> written.

I don't know what the installed base of users for the TW-523 driver in
FreeBSD, but it seems rather doubtful that many new instances of these
are popping up.  There are a newer generation of X-10 powerline computer
interfaces that plug into a serial ports, and this seems to be the more
popular alternative these days.

louie



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