From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 02:10:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10028 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:10:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA09897 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA08096; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:35:38 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199802240835.JAA08096@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:35:38 +0100 (MET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802240912.BAA22624@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Feb 24, 98 01:12:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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