Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:44:35 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reminder: non-mpsafetty drivers to be *dis*connected on Sunday Message-ID: <20080801134435.GQ99951@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080801132624.GG1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20080801124845.GZ1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <64491.1217595198@critter.freebsd.dk> <20080801132624.GG1359@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--VmyrZ50r30oK77nV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Peter, * Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On 2008-Aug-01 12:53:18 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wro= te: > >I got a syntax error on this email Peter, didn't you mean to write: > > > >"Great work Ed, let me send you some patches" >=20 > I would love to be able to send some patches. In order to do so, I > need some information about how to interface with the MPSAFE TTY > subsystem and how to adapt an existing driver. I am not the only > person to have indicated a need for some hand-holding and I was under > the impression that Ed would provide this but, to date, all I have is > suggestions to look at patched drivers. I guess things went wrong, because I probably confused you with Peter Wemm (I know - I'm bad with names), who inquired about si(4). I did send him a message some time ago, to see if we could make an appointment to discuss how we could get si(4) working. Even though I agree with you that we need more documentation on the TTY layer's internals, my opinion is that other people should have shown more interest from the start. When I sent a message a couple of weeks ago, I almost immediately got a response from Alexander Kabaev (kan@). He wanted to help me with the dcons(4) driver, which he did. I just said: take a look at what I did to uart(4) and the console drivers and gave him some random advice. He was able to send me an almost flawless diff in a matter of hours, which he committed to the mpsafetty branch himself! Maybe I'm replying to too many messages at the same time, but as John said, it's a lot easier making the remaining drivers work after the code has been integrated. It's not like we're permanently carving things into stone - we've almost got a full year to get it all working again. Yours, --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ PS: The subject should have read "disconnected", not "connected". --VmyrZ50r30oK77nV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiTE0MACgkQ52SDGA2eCwUKzgCfcMiuuz0nktJlV5gwj/gBAWKb LfsAn3DK/N0OrhUwsIAqi+UMAlpCyDtn =Mfb7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VmyrZ50r30oK77nV--
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