From owner-freebsd-firewire Tue Sep 10 18: 0:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F0037B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5585643E3B for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8B10a9R021600; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:00:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:00:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020910.190028.112625168.imp@bsdimp.com> To: rodrigc@attbi.com Cc: julian@elischer.org, firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hello lurkers.. From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020910203601.B799@attbi.com> References: <20020910203601.B799@attbi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020910203601.B799@attbi.com> Craig Rodrigues writes: : On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:01:34PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: : > What I need to know is: : > 1/ it seems to me there are two 'variants' of firewire code. : > What is being done to address this? (DV vs General) It appears that there's reaelly only one. No need to do anything about it :-) : > 2/ are the current patches commitable vs -current? : > Note: they do NOT HAVE TO WORK to be commitable, but they should compile. : : Hidetoshi Shimokawa seemed to be actively working on Firewire, : and has patches here: : : http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa : : but they haven't been updated since July. I don't know if Hidetoshi : is around, he hasn't responded to queries on the mailing list lately. He posted to the developer's mailing list July 30th. It looks like the code is ready to roll into -current, save for a couple of tiny integration leg work. Out of respect for shimokawa-san, who is a committer, I've not slammed it in myself. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message