Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:20:05 GMT From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs Message-ID: <200909281920.n8SJK5Ao072443@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:05:40 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > Why should FreeBSD not by default include a technology that is
> > available since 7 years?
>
> The support for ATAPICAM is loadable as a kernel module too. We can
> probably add ATAPICAM to the default 'GENERIC' kernel config file. It
> may also be useful to patch cdrtools to try kldload-ing "atapicam.ko"
> when it detects that "dev.atapicam.0.%driver" is not available as a
> sysctl knob.
If you believe that this is needed and helps, please help with the
implementation as I plan to pulish cdrtools-3.0-final in areox. 2 weeks.
Jörg
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