Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:46:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up! config(8) changes.. Message-ID: <199905250546.WAA00428@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 May 1999 12:46:29 %2B0200." <19990524124629.55958@breizh.teaser.fr>
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> >> 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.
Do you expect that the situation will improve, or do you feel you need
to hand it over to a new maintainer?
> So, what are the next issues:
>
> - porting ppbus to newbus (especially irq managment)
Yes.
> - fix ppc probe bugs with recent mainboards
I think that this needs to wait on the PnP hooks into the resource
manager. If the chipset probes are killing something, I'd wager that
the something in question is mentioned in the PnP data.
> - sync -current and -stable
This would be handy, and could probably be achieved easily.
> - test plip in depth
That'd be useful.
I would add
- Improve ECP/EPP performance if possible.
- Add/finish bidirectional ECP printer support.
> I think there is more to do with making ppbus more and more stable than
> bringing new capabilities to it yet.
That's certainly a worthwhile perspective. What can we do to help you?
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