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Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2024 15:14:53 -0700
From:      Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>,  Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CAN bus support
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On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 3:06=E2=80=AFPM Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com=
> wrote:
>
> On 11/9/24 13:57, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> > A FreeBSD vendor is interested in interacting with CAN bus on FreeBSD.
> > [...]
> > Is there other interest or concern about the topic?
>
> As release engineer, I'm interested in hearing more (perhaps off-list)
> about what they're doing, since the time scales for most devices which
> use a CAN bus are significantly longer than the time scales for FreeBSD
> releases.

It is an amd64 appliance with a bus attached controller and not a
special SoC so it probably shouldn't be impactful to arch support
expectations.

> No obligation of course, and they're free to do whatever works for them;
> this is purely a case of "knowing more about how FreeBSD is being used
> might help us support said uses better".

I'll find out some more information and see what is appropriate from
their perspective to share.

> --
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoi=
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>



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