From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 16:45:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17028 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (a04m.cet.co.jp [202.32.65.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16988 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00610; Wed, 6 May 1998 15:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805062230.PAA00610@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Archie Cobbs cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), stefan@promo.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 1998 10:19:49 PDT." <199805061719.KAA23936@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:30:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Luigi Rizzo writes: > > > I'll take a look on the weekend... > > > > I have to say that shuffling ideas, suggestions, or requests for > > features is a nice thing, but at this point i think we have by far much > > more projects than manpower, so what we really need is people start > > implementing things. So your last sentence is very appreciated... > > I'd be willing to help with some of the more "menial" tasks around > getting things fixed up. For example, the conversion from drivers > using NFOO to dynaically allocated softc structures and foointr(void *) > instead of foointr(int).. if you have ideas let me know. Those two alone would be bloody wonderful. You might want to think about how to get the softc pointer inside other functions (open/close/ read/write). This latter probably calls for passing a token to the devfs creation functions, which is passed back instead of the dev_t. Julian and I have talked about this before - you should be able to extract the gist of this from him pretty quickly. More importantly, you can do this incrementally. A driver a day should be pretty achievable. 8) Thanks! -- \\ 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. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message