From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 00:45:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD09106566C; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@acm.org) Received: from fallbackmx08.syd.optusnet.com.au (fallbackmx08.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB948FC13; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail14.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail14.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.195]) by fallbackmx08.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p5OMa5ZF014898; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:05 +1000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-116-103.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.116.103]) by mail14.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p5OMa1bh001935 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:02 +1000 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5OMa1JX004253; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p5OMa0l4004252; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:36:00 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: David Boyd Message-ID: <20110624223600.GB5021@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current status of digi driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:45:29 -0000 --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 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--