From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 17:06:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662E416A4CE; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:06:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B388243D3F; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:06:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9JH6TPE041713; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:06:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <4175497F.2000501@DeepCore.dk> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:06:07 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Quinot References: <20041013205141.GA874@galgenberg.net> <416DA856.9040703@vbservices.net> <20041015093908.GA11176@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <20041018234324.GA1270@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <4174B366.9010508@DeepCore.dk> <20041019165749.GA33059@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041019165749.GA33059@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: Michael Joyner cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: atapicam(4) as KLD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:06:34 -0000 Thomas Quinot wrote: > * S=F8ren Schmidt, 2004-10-19 : >=20 >=20 >>Well, if we need to go the newbus way, we need to do it completely, ie = >>get the ATA devices etc tied in that way as well. >=20 > I agree that this would be nice, but I do not see it as a prerequisite > to modularizing atapicam. But I do, just adding in the atapicam glue add even more kludges which I = dont want. >>know there has been a couble of others looking into this, so now is the= =20 >>time to chime in if thats the case. >=20 > Where are we standing with this effort? Who is working on it currently,= > and what has been implemented already? It was talked about on IRC long time ago in connection with making ATA=20 truely modular. Anyhow I have done some of the work myself some time ago instead of=20 using func ptrs, but abandoned it due to it being more messy than=20 helpfull for that purpose. I'll try to locate that tree in the woods=20 here, maybe that could be turned into what we want. So, as usual, I'm working on it :/ --=20 -S=F8ren