Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:37:09 +0200 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! config(8) changes.. Message-ID: <19990525123709.08844@breizh.teaser.fr> In-Reply-To: <199905250546.WAA00428@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, May 24, 1999 at 10:46:41PM -0700 References: <19990524124629.55958@breizh.teaser.fr> <199905250546.WAA00428@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 10:46:41PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> >> Someone who would help me driving ppbus, yes. I didn't have enough time >> last months. > >Do you expect that the situation will improve, or do you feel you need >to hand it over to a new maintainer? > The situation shall improve. But I'd like to keep time to manage iic/smbus a bit more closely. What takes time is not the development, but answering to questions, track bugs, fix them... the second live of the software. I don't have time for both, especially when the whole operating system is changing very fast like it did last few months, breaking all development tools (ether/netboot, elf/aout, gdb...). I stop here :) Most of the framework is ready to work. Just some fixes and more testing are needed for the topics mentionned later (excepted ECP support which needs more work). > >> - fix ppc probe bugs with recent mainboards > >I think that this needs to wait on the PnP hooks into the resource >manager. If the chipset probes are killing something, I'd wager that >the something in question is mentioned in the PnP data. > >> - sync -current and -stable > >This would be handy, and could probably be achieved easily. > >> - test plip in depth > >That'd be useful. > >I would add > > - Improve ECP/EPP performance if possible. What do you mean here? PLIP? Then yes. I was in contact with the Linux part for this. We'll have to look at there protocol choices. > > - Add/finish bidirectional ECP printer support. Shall not be too hard with an ECP printer. Most of the needed routines are already in the ppbus framework. But I'm afraid that it will lead to the rewrite of lpt driver, not a bad thing though. > >> I think there is more to do with making ppbus more and more stable than >> bringing new capabilities to it yet. > >That's certainly a worthwhile perspective. What can we do to help you? Thanks. I can't afford both developments and ppbus support. Peter proposed me some help for the newbus port (removing linker_sets). I still need manpower for the support (I know this may not be the finest part of the advanture) and the plip extensions if requested by the FreeBSD community (may not be mandatory with cheaper network cards and USB...). And finally find an ECP printer around. > >-- >\\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith >\\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > Nicholas -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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