Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 18:17:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Advantech 1750 PCI IO card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990507181540.1009A-100000@elpc36.jrc.it> In-Reply-To: <37331109.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Is there on the FreeBSD website a page with a list of binary only drivers? With PCI being newbus it would be great to start something like that. It would be dead easy to have a list of drivers + contact addresses. The only problem is that binary drivers might need recompilation once in a while for new versions of the OS. Nick. On Fri, 7 May 1999, Roger Hardiman wrote: > Soren, > (cc to Hackers for general information) > > In our Telepresence Lab we have almost finished a driver > for the Advantach PCI 1750 card. This is a I/O card > with 16 inputs and 16 outputs, timer chips and interrupts triggered > by changes in state on the input lines or the outputs of the timer > chips. > > So far our driver only supports digital outputs. > (no inputs or interrupt handlers) > > We want to make the driver freely available to all > (subject to final approval from our project supervisor). > > > Some questions? > 1) Is this worth including in the main source tree? > > 2) How do I get a major device number. > > 3) If our supervisor makes us release binary only drivers, > what would be the best way forwards? > On -current, we can have a loadable PCI device driver. > What happens on 3.x systems. > > 4) If it does not go into a release, is there somewhere on the > web site to mention the driver, prehaps in the 'projects' section. > > Hopefully, we can make it open source and have the source > in the FreeBSD source tree for everyone to use. > > What do people think about this? > Comment please. > > Bye > Roger > -- > Roger Hardiman | Telepresence Research Group > roger@cs.strath.ac.uk | DMEM, University of Strathclyde > tel: 0141 548 2897 | Glasgow, Scotland, G1 1XJ, UK > fax: 0141 552 0557 | http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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