From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 15:18:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23380106564A for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED108FC1B for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:18:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [96.47.65.170]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A75F646B2D; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:18:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 119B3B93A; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:50:01 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p10; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201202280850.01031.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:18:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: David Walker Subject: Re: kern/94369: [bktr] [patch] Patch to support Leadtek WinFast Tv2000 XP bktr card X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:18:31 -0000 On Monday, February 27, 2012 12:26:15 pm David Walker wrote: > Hey. > > Originally posted here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012- February/238818.html > > I'm new here. :] > > I have one of these cards. > I notice the PR is open - does this mean the patch was not committed? Yes. > Is there anything I can do to get eyeballs on this? > I've never compiled from source or applied a diff but if it needs > testng and someone's willing to give me a basic outline of the > procedure I'll see if I can avago. > Learning this stuff is on my todo list for this decade but time is short. You will need to use patch(1) to apply the patches from the PR to a kernel source tree and then build a new kernel (or a new bktr module) to test it. I believe there are some instructions in the Handbook about compiling custom kernels and possibly applying patches as well. -- John Baldwin