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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:46:31 +0900 (JST)
From:      hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
To:        jkh@zippy.cdrom.com
Cc:        y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp, mike@smith.net.au, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, nathan@rtfm.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: PAO Integration?
Message-ID:  <199812141546.AAA25255@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Dec 1998 17:29:34 JST". <34776.913537774@zippy.cdrom.com>

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In article <34776.913537774@zippy.cdrom.com>
jkh@zippy.cdrom.com writes:

>> And we appreciate that, believe me.  I think Mike may have been a
>> little too harsh in his original message and I think that everyone in
>> core, at least, does appreciate the language problem and the fact that
>> you guys are often "out of the loop" on a lot of things going on
>> around here.  It would help greatly, of course, if Tatsumi-san would
>> come back and take up the commit privs we gave him for the purpose of
>> creating closer cooperation.  Has anyone even seen Mr. Hosokawa
>> lately?  Is he still alive? :-)

I'm alive, but I haven't recieved any current@freebsd.org mails these
days.  I heard about this thread in other mailing list and I searched
my mailbox, but I found that no current@freebsd.org mails in it. I
unsubscribed current once, and subscribed it again, but no mails have
come from current@freebsd.org... Hmm...

(I'm writing this mail via mail-netnews gateway)

BTW, I think that PAO for 2.2.8 and 3.0 are provided for convenience
of users and should be integrated in smart way.

For example, I think that pcic_probe/attach, resource allocation code,
multiple windows support, and some very dirty hacks in PAO should be
totally rewritten before integration, but TI support, regex in
pccard.conf, function ID in pccard.conf, noirq in pccard.conf, broken
CIS hack, etc. should be integrated in -current.  But I can't spend
time for these works because I'm very busy today.

I think PAO for 3.0 is better startline for these works than PAO for
2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.5,....  I hope many people works on the smart
integration of PAO and I think I can help them.

*I personally* don't think that newconfig is needed for *PAO*, but I
think that better device driver implementation is needed for
*FreeBSD*.  If many people think newconfig is better implementation
and FreeBSD uses it, I think that the experiences in PAO experimental
code should be rewritten in newconfig way, and if everyone says
new-bus is the best, PAO should be rewritten in new-bus way.

I don't think that all PAO code should be in -current, but I think
we've got many pracical knowledge of PC-card system from PAO, and I
believe that these experiences are useful for future FreeBSD.

--
HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi
Network Technology Center
Keio University
hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp

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