From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 20:13:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B05106564A for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93EE8FC18 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [96.47.65.170]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4CF3B46B0C; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:13:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE120B91E; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:13:43 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: David Walker Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:46:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p10; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201202280850.01031.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201202281446.20069.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:13:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/94369: [bktr] [patch] Patch to support Leadtek WinFast Tv2000 XP bktr card X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:13:44 -0000 On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:03:17 am David Walker wrote: > Hi John. > > Thanks for the reply. > > On 29/02/2012, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Monday, February 27, 2012 12:26:15 pm David Walker wrote: > >> I have one of these cards. > >> I notice the PR is open - does this mean the patch was not committed? > > > > Yes. > > OIC. > > >> Is there anything I can do to get eyeballs on this? > >> I've never compiled from source or applied a diff but if it needs > >> testng and someone's willing to give me a basic outline of the > >> procedure I'll see if I can avago. > >> Learning this stuff is on my todo list for this decade but time is short. > > > > You will need to use patch(1) to apply the patches from the PR to a kernel > > source tree and then build a new kernel (or a new bktr module) to test it. > > I > > believe there are some instructions in the Handbook about compiling custom > > kernels and possibly applying patches as well. > > > > -- > > John Baldwin > > > > As I mentioned I'm new here. > That might be a little out of my depth for the forseeable future. > It's a good mission though. > > If I take on this mission, what does it take to get a piece of > hardware into the tree? > In this case a PR with very simple patches and apparently eyes on from > a comitter didn't cut it. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern%2F94369 > > Would it be useful for me to poke the PR? If you can confirm that the patch works for you, I will commit it. -- John Baldwin