Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:15:06 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire if_fwip.c if_fwipvar.h src/sys/net firewire.h if_arp.h if_fwsubr.c src/sys/netinet if_ether.c src/sys/conf NOTES files Message-ID: <200409211015.07053.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20040918073933.GV30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <200406131054.i5DAsbKU005744@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040918073933.GV30151@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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On Saturday 18 September 2004 08:39, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:54:37AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > +> dfr 2004-06-13 10:54:37 UTC > +> > +> FreeBSD src repository > +> > +> Modified files: > +> sys/net if_arp.h > +> sys/netinet if_ether.c > +> sys/conf NOTES files > +> Added files: > +> sys/dev/firewire if_fwip.c if_fwipvar.h > +> sys/net firewire.h if_fwsubr.c > +> Log: > +> Add a new driver to support IP over firewire. This driver is > intended to +> conform to the rfc2734 and rfc3146 standard for IP > over firewire and +> should eventually supercede the fwe driver. > Right now the broadcast +> channel number is hardwired and we don't > support MCAP for multicast +> channel allocation - more > infrastructure is required in the firewire +> code itself to fix > these problems. > > Why it is not included in GENERIC? Because when it was committed it was essentially untested. The version in current and 5.3 should interoperate with WinXP and possibly OS X but it still isn't really well tested.
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