From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 09:00:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF5016A4CE; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:00:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kraid.nerim.net (smtp-104-thursday.nerim.net [62.4.16.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE59643D45; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:59:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com (kisoftacces2.net1.nerim.net [62.212.107.52]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758A041B52; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:59:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])06594C37C; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:59:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com ([127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63158-07; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:59:48 +0100 (CET) Received: by srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2EE5CC372; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:59:48 +0100 (CET) To: Scott Long From: Eric Masson In-Reply-To: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> (Scott Long's message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:02:40 -0700") References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386 Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:59:47 +0100 Message-ID: <86d5xtf530.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at interne.kisoft-services.com cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 09:00:00 -0000 >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Long writes: Hi, Scott> 1. Keyboard multiplexer. We are running into problems with Scott> making ps/2 and USB/bluetooth keyboards work together and work Scott> with KVMs. Having a virtual keyboard device that multiplexes the Scott> various real keyboard devices and handles hotplug can solve this Scott> mess pretty effectively. I know that there has been a lot of Scott> talk about this on mailing lists recently but I don't know how Scott> much progress is being made so I'm listing it here. NetBSD's wscons seems to fit in this scheme, OpenBSD has adopted it as well (the most featured implementation is in NetBSD/i386). Scott> 6. Overhaul CAM, add iSCSI. CAM is very parallel-SCSI centric Scott> right now. I have some work-in-progress in Perforce to address Scott> this, but it's pretty minimal. The parallel SCSI knowledge needs Scott> to be separated out and the stack need to be able to cleanly Scott> deal with iSCSI, SCSI, SAS, and maybe even ATA transports. There Scott> is a Lucent implementation of iSCSI for FreeBSD 4.x that could Scott> be a useful reference, though it's a monolithic stack that Scott> doesn't really address the shortcomings of CAM. Having iSCSI Scott> infrastructure that supported both hardware and software Scott> implementations would be ideal. It would be really nice to be able to play in the iscsi field. It seems that work has been done in this area by Wasabi (not published in NetBSD, iirc) Very appealing goals, if only I were a decent coder... Éric Masson -- je pense pas que ce soit toi....tu es bien trop vicieux pour agir de cette façon. Toi ton genre, c'est plus de contacter banque direct en esperant que je n'auras pas mes cadeaux de parrainages!!!!! -+- JD in : Petit neuneu Noël -+-