From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 18 02:03:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA10908 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 02:03:17 -0800 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA10893 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 1995 02:03:04 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rflzF-000HzkC; Sat, 18 Feb 95 11:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.ppp.net (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0rflcv-0002OfC; Sat, 18 Feb 95 10:38 WET Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: isdn driver info? To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD Hackers) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 10:38:57 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <27603.793066459@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 17, 95 04:14:19 pm Reply-To: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1127 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Jordan K. Hubbard: > > There is no established standard available until now which specifies how > > to talk to pc type ISDN boards on the hardware level so the driver is > > in its current version pretty much bound to a given hardware. > > I'm not surprised, though perhaps we can work on generalizing this as > a second pass? IMHO, the way to go is to support boards which have a (standardized) CAPI in firmware, which leaves only (!!) the problem of the never standardized hardware access to the board. Also, some sort of layering scheme Julian did in the scsi driver would be a BIG win ... > If someone comes up with a non-GPL'd ISDN driver that works better > than this one, hey! I'll nuke it back out of the tree in a second! > :-) Nothing really relies on it, so it would be very easy to remove it > again. I did not want to blame the driver, really its a start, and starting is the worst thing in writing a driver ;-) hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.ppp.net Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?