From owner-freebsd-firewire Tue Sep 10 19:40:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB4537B400; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FCF43E3B; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:40:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020911024010.DGXC16673.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 02:40:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA65471; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:27:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa Cc: ikob@freebsd.org, firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hello lurkers.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > At Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:01:34 -0700 (PDT), > Julian Elischer wrote: > > Well I know this isn't an active list but I also know that people ARE > > working on 1394 and do listen to this.. > > > > > > OK, so as a llong-term FreeBSD committer I want to > > get Firewire into the CVS tree in teh next few weeks. > > As far as I know, Kobayashi-san will do. I am happy to let him do so but if I can help to make it easier then I shall do so. > > > What I need to know is: > > 1/ it seems to me there are two 'variants' of firewire code. > > What is being done to address this? (DV vs General) > > Both of two are originally written by Kobayashi-san, the first version > (for FreeBSD-4.x, http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/software/index.html) > was discontinued because of the socket interface is objected by > FreeBSD developers. I am reading his paper on this. I will know more later > He wrote new version from scranch for FreeBSD-5.x which has > basic SBP-II support. (ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/) > I improved the new driver (SBP-II support, async transactions, > kernel module, ethernet emulation, etc.) and put it on > http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa/. > > > 2/ are the current patches commitable vs -current? > > Note: they do NOT HAVE TO WORK to be commitable, but they should compile. > > > > They compile and work. > > We developed the source under our private CVS repository because > When we ask admin@freebsd.org to make repository on freefall for the driver, > we cannot get a response. I think this is a problem.. an you tell me what you would ocnsider "perfect"? and we can see what can be achieved. > > > New features need not be committed fully functional, but it makes it a LOT > > easier to get lots of testers if it is checked in. > > > > let me know how I can push this because 5.0 is close and > > I'd like to see it standard in 4.8 as well. > > (I actually need it in 4.4) > > Kobayashi-san, any comments? > > /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa > \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp > PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message