Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:27:16 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. Message-ID: <199802241027.CAA23278@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:35:38 %2B0100." <199802240835.JAA08096@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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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 ? It is worth the effort if we have a small team ready to tackle the project other than that is a pie in the sky idea. > > 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. Thats cool ... > > 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 If we have the ioctl functionality in the kernel to map to 8) Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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