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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:02:18 -0600
To: zpit@samara.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Comtrol RocketPort under 2.2
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Comtrol's driver is a beta, and it was written by amir@comtrol.com. It's
not officially supported. We wanted to use a RocketPort -- in fact, several
-- but did not and will not because Comtrol will make no guarantees that
the driver will ever be supported. We want to move all of our machines to
2.2.2 or 2.2.3 (2.2.1-R has some bugs, but it looks as if they're getting
fixed in the snaps), so that rules out Comtrol for us unless the drivers
are updated.

I'd recommend sending e-mail to amir@comtrol.com and info@comtrol.com.
Please let everyone know what they say.

I've urged Comtrol to have the driver integrated into the FreeBSD source
tree, but when I checked they seemed utterly uninterested.

--Brett Glass

P.S. -- If Comtrol is willing to let the drivers be integrated into
FreeBSD, and I can learn enough to update the drivers, I'd be glad
volunteer; their hardware actually seems pretty solid. Right now, I'm
*still* trying to learn enough about FreeBSD driver development to write
even the simplest driver. There are virtually no docs on the semantics of
some of the routines called within the kernel, and the kernel data
structures are so poorly documented that I can only guess at their meaning.



At 10:03 PM 4/28/97 +0100, zpit@samara.net wrote:
 
>Good day!
>
>I've got a RocketPort/ISA and FreeBSD 2.2.1. But drivers from
>ftp.comtrol.com
>are for 2.1. And I do not understand how to modify or apply manualy patch
>coming with drivers. In other words, where can I read about how to
>integrate
>new device driver into FreeBSD kernel?
>
>P.S. I've got drivers from ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/BETA/B6547tar.gz
>     The problem is: I cant figure where to put changes targeted
>     to /sys/i386/i386/conf.c because I cant find this file :(
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>And please reply via e-mail too.
>
>--
>zpit
>
>
>
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