Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:00:05 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pccard disruptions : how did it go? Message-ID: <199912161000.SAA18401@laurasia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199912160025.RAA65931@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Dec 15, 99 05:25:19 pm"
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Hi Warner, Thanks for your detailed writeup of the direction that you want to go in. > > What can you do to help? > Well, firstly I'd like to get the xe driver under FreeBSD. But before I even get to that stage, I'll have to learn about the pccard subsystem, and more about the FreeBSD kernel internals. I've had a look at the man pages Doug Rabson wrote for the device attach code - they are very good - and thought about writing a man page for pccard (4) that would detail the ioctl's provided by the system, and other man pages that would detail the design of the pccard subsystem. I suppose the eventual goal of this work would be to have a 'howto-write-a-pccard-driver-for-freebsd' howto. In any case, before porting the xe driver I'll have to have a clue on how to do the port, so this howto should be an easy by-product. I've got -current (12th dec sources) on an IBM 365X, and I can/will use that box for testing. Unfortunately, the network connection is by floppy-net, and so I'm not too keen on reinstalling lots of software on it. But I'll try to track -current reasonably closely (fortnightly). As usual, I'm constrained on time. So I'm not going to make any commitments on getting stuff done! By the same token, I don't expect anyone else to get anything done, and I'll certainly not make demands on FreeBSD, or its developers. I doubt that I'd get the xe driver ported before 4.0 is released. What help do you require? Regards, Mike Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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