From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 24 02:28:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA13319 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com ([209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA13280 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23278; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199802241027.CAA23278@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: mike@smith.net.au, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI related patch .. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:35:38 +0100." <199802240835.JAA08096@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:27:16 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > We forgot to mention that whomever embarks on a high level abstraction > > for dealing with multimedia devices including scanners has to also > > content with writing and supporting the underlying hardware which in > > many instances has not been standardized or hardware vendors are > > very lax . Do a net search on the linux scsi scanner project SANE and > ... > > in other words: not worth the effort ? It is worth the effort if we have a small team ready to tackle the project other than that is a pie in the sky idea. > > While we are in the topic of audio/video interfaces for CDs > > someone should take a look at what Linux is doing in this area > > i gave a very quick look a couple of months ago and I think they have > some generic ioctl for atapi access. Thats cool ... > > for we can potentially benefit in this area . Quake ][ is > > a key program which currently we don't support reading the > > CD's audio track. > > what we can do is probably add the usual ioctl mapping in linux_ioctl.c If we have the ioctl functionality in the kernel to map to 8) Cheers, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message