From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 12:45:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFE737B4B2 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:45:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFD043E4A for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0EKkoAg005651; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:46:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E246B24.1040100@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:55:16 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Quinn Ellis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding hardware for driver developers References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030115050234.00b1b780@mail.avemedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quinn Ellis wrote: > How does one add a piece of hardware to the list of ones for developers > to design drivers for. > I know FreeBSD supports similar chipsets from this company, and cards, > but not exactly my one. Depending on what kind of hardware it is, find out what developers are working on that hardware (differen't people develop network drivers than ATA drivers, for example) Contact the person (or people) working on the type of hardware you want supported and see what they need to make it happen. It's very likely that getting the hardware supported will involve a donation from you of a piece of that hardware, so don't be surprised if you're asked for one. We donated a DVD-burner to Soeren Schmidt last fall, so hopefully there will be a lot of support for DVD burning in FreeBSD 5. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message