From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 31 15:37:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27278 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp5.portal.net.au [202.12.71.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27271 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA00579; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 09:56:46 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801312326.JAA00579@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" cc: mike smith , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: integrated support for iomega zip via parallel port In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:57:26 CDT." <199801291457.JAA17168@unix.nmarcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 09:56:45 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Crossposting to -hackers, -current and -stable is always a bad idea. > > My apologies; it just seemed to fit into all categories... the hard core > techies, those tracking stable (like me) and the less faint-of-heart in > current, where i suspected that the driver may already be patially > integrated. ... so you get us all three times. It's always a mistake. > >> Are there any plans to put the driver for the iomega zip and parallel > port > >> transfers into the kernel? I'm running stable right now, and it's a bit > of a > >> pain to merge the Linux port into the tree every time i want to do a > kernel > >> build after a cvs update :) > > > >Er, what "Linux port" did you have in mind? > > The one that is mentioned in the FAQ. :) > > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html I don't think there's much chance of that driver making it in, no. Even the author doesn't like it. > I'd be happy to hook my ZIP to my spare development machine and try to kick > the shit out of the driver... i'm not a great C programmer, but i have a > strong need to use my ZIP drive for FreeBSD and am willing to invest > whatever volunteer time i can in whatever capacity i can be of use, like > testing... OK; basically you need to bring back the 'ppbus' stuff from -current, which is everything in sys/dev/ppbus, as well as the related changes to sys/conf/files, and the chipset driver in sys/i386/isa and related changes to sys/i386/conf/*. If you need more specific help, let me know off the list. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\