Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:00 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: David Boyd <David.Boyd@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current status of digi driver Message-ID: <20110624223600.GB5021@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <OJEBKOFDEOADELCOBJCGGENGDOAA.David.Boyd@insightbb.com> References: <OJEBKOFDEOADELCOBJCGGENGDOAA.David.Boyd@insightbb.com>
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--1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-Jun-23 17:55:15 -0400, David Boyd <David.Boyd@insightbb.com> wrote: >It appears that there was also agreement that (at least) some of the >drivers, digi included, would be converted soon after 8.0-RELEASE. That came down to developer time and it appeared that I was the only person interested in it. >Is there any plan to bring digi forward? See kern/158086 (which updates digi(4)) and kern/152254 (which re- implements TTY functionality that was lost with TTYng). Both include patches that should work on either 8.x or -current. Of the two, the latter is more urgent because it impacts the KBI. >We have about 55 modem ports over ten 8-port Xr cards (PCI) that connect >remote sites via dial-up. I've only got access to PCI Xem cards that are used for serial console concentration so it would be useful for you to test both the Xr cards and dial-in support. --=20 Peter Jeremy --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4FEVAACgkQ/opHv/APuIek1ACgjZkaeEsC8N0dH8yjB3ttmagZ ppcAoJsomjE2/URTkyHMlvGzUqWe+HzS =a4IU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--
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