Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:35:38 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. Message-ID: <199802240835.JAA08096@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199802240912.BAA22624@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Feb 24, 98 01:12:10 am
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> We forgot to mention that whomever embarks on a high level abstraction > for dealing with multimedia devices including scanners has to also > content with writing and supporting the underlying hardware which in > many instances has not been standardized or hardware vendors are > very lax . Do a net search on the linux scsi scanner project SANE and ... in other words: not worth the effort ? > While we are in the topic of audio/video interfaces for CDs > someone should take a look at what Linux is doing in this area i gave a very quick look a couple of months ago and I think they have some generic ioctl for atapi access. > for we can potentially benefit in this area . Quake ][ is > a key program which currently we don't support reading the > CD's audio track. what we can do is probably add the usual ioctl mapping in linux_ioctl.c cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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