From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 24 3:53: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from reliam.teaser.fr (reliam.teaser.fr [194.51.80.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A517014C02 for ; Mon, 24 May 1999 03:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsouch@teaser.fr) Received: from teaser.fr (ppp1087-ft.teaser.fr [194.206.156.40]) by reliam.teaser.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id MAA19648; Mon, 24 May 1999 12:52:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from nsouch@localhost) by teaser.fr (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA02056; Mon, 24 May 1999 12:46:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nsouch) Message-ID: <19990524124629.55958@breizh.teaser.fr> Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:46:29 +0200 From: Nicolas Souchu To: Mike Smith Cc: John Polstra , peter@netplex.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! config(8) changes.. References: <199904300521.WAA03402@vashon.polstra.com> <199904300526.WAA01120@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199904300526.WAA01120@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 10:26:48PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD breizh 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 10:26:48PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > >> In article <19990424190901.D3A791F58@spinner.netplex.com.au>, >> Peter Wemm wrote: >> > This shouldn't cause much in the way of trouble, but it will complain >> > about old lint in your config files. That includes 'net/tty/bio/cam' >> > mask indicators, and 'vector xxxintr' as well as some of the wierder >> > workarounds for the poor 'options' parsing. >> > >> > So: things like: >> > device sio1 at isa? tty port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 >> > become: >> > device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq3 >> >> What do you do about the "ppc" device? Formerly, it needed to be "net >> irq ..." if the "plip" device was going to be used, but "tty irq ..." >> otherwise. Which one did you pick? > >It needs to flip between one or both, but I can't raise Nicolas lately, >so I'm starting to fear that we're going to need a new maintainer. >That bites, given how well things were going. Someone who would help me driving ppbus, yes. I didn't have enough time last months. So, what are the next issues: - porting ppbus to newbus (especially irq managment) - fix ppc probe bugs with recent mainboards - sync -current and -stable - test plip in depth I think there is more to do with making ppbus more and more stable than bringing new capabilities to it yet. > >-- >\\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >\\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >\\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message