Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 22:26:27 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de> To: doehrm@aubi.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_D=F6hr?=) Cc: hm@hcs.de, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for ITK? (Comment) Message-ID: <199812092126.WAA04760@rumolt.teuto.de> In-Reply-To: <AB06BBFD8AFBD111B07600805FCB11920EECFA@EXCHANGE.aubi.de> from "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Markus_D=F6hr?=" at Dec 9, 98 05:14:20 pm
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> IMHO I think, that writing a driver for this card cannot be so difficult, > because the source for the driver is available on Linux and can IMHO be > adapted to *BSD, Writing any driver for any card is "not so difficult". There are even cards with good documentation waiting for someone to finish a driver (my daic driver for old active Diehl/Eicon cards is a good example). There is no benefit per se to support any card. We are not fighting a battle against I4L to support more cards then they do - we would have lost that battle from the start. And we don't even fight a battle "our drivers are better written than your's are" - although at least to me this is a quite apealing challenge (and we would have won that from the start!). There is nothing prefenting any driver from "being adapted" or being "taken as reference material" for writing a new driver. The missing need to do so for the people able to do so is the point. > although I must add, that I'm not able to. I also have two > of these cards lying around here and it would be nice, if someone is > probably able to adapt. My C knowledge doesn't seem to be deep enough to do > this :-( So this one is easy: send one card to me, one to Hellmuth (or any other I4B developer voluntering) and promise not to urge us. Maybe you could even ask ITK for official docs. And maybe you will get a working driver back - and maybe only your cards and no driver. Yoy see, everyone I know able to write such a driver has *a lot of* various working and supported cards around - why should he even consider looking at the I4L driver? How should he then start testing a driver? Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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