Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:48:53 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.net> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>, arch@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Willing to adopt Firewire (was Re: your mail) Message-ID: <20060522204852.GL770@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <447220E5.8080604@astralblue.net> References: <20060522143521.J21787@fledge.watson.org> <20060522085405.Y34519@ns1.feral.com> <20060522172636.Y21787@fledge.watson.org> <447220E5.8080604@astralblue.net>
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Eugene M. Kim wrote this message on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 13:36 -0700:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> >Yes -- we're beginning to reach the point where we can start issuing
> >ultimatums on device drivers, but need USB and Firewire dealt with
> >before we can begin to push out stragglers. For better or worse,
> >those two hardware categories can't be ignored. Being at a point
> >where we can universally make assumptions about MPSAFEty is a very
> >good place to be, and we're very close with the network stack.
>
> Quick question: Has anyone stepped up for MP-guarding Firewire and
> boys? I plan to begin hacking Firewire code soon (mainly to add support
> for 1394 audio devices), so I probably can adopt them if they've been
> orphaned.
Nope, not that I've heard... I regularly use firewire on my -current
box, so I can help review/commit changes to firewire, or you can talk
w/ simokawa about it too... We'll need to cordinate w/ simokawa
anyways...
/me wonders if simokawa goes to CBUG meetings.
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