Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:46:54 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, Luis Medinas <lmedinas@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Brasero on FreeBSD Message-ID: <op.t4dc8g0n9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1199389012.64371.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1199159561.6089.2.camel@fermi> <1199304410.9913.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <op.t4bpxnsu9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <op.t4dbr9h69aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <1199389012.64371.72.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:36:52 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:15 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> >> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:06:50 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke >> > <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 03:52 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: >> >>> Hi >> >>> >> >>> As a co-maintainer of Brasero i'm tempted to ask why FreeBSD hasn't >> >>> brasero 0.7.0 on the ports tree. None of us are using FreeBSD sadly >> but >> >>> we can work together to make it work better for FreeBSD if it isn't >> >>> working atm. Please bump brasero. >> >> >> >> To those interested, I updated the port to 0.7.0, but there are >> caveats. >> >> I have not tested the runtime. It requires the Linux SG SCSI support >> >> which means it's limited to recent RELENG_6, RELENG_7, or -CURRENT. >> You >> >> will also need the following in your kernel: >> >> >> >> device sg >> > >> > Interesting, I don't know about sg. Bummer, there is no module for >> it. I >> > can rebuild my kernel tonight or tomorrow and test it. >> >> Umm... It looks like HAL doesn't like sg device in kernel. The HAL just >> doesn't function unless I boot in old kernel that has no sg. If I insert >> blank CD or DVD and it doesn't auto recoginze blank CD/DVD unless I >> reboot >> to use kernel without sg. I have tested it twice to make sure to boot in >> kernel with and without sg. If you want me to debug, then I can and I >> will >> have to check in FAQ for how to debug HAL. > > Looks like sg isn't going to work, then. It would be a massive > undertaking to port brasero to CAM the way it is now since only a file > descriptor is passed to the SCSI code, and CAM would require the whole > path (or a cam device struct). This will mean lots of ifdefs. > > What might be better is to conditionalize the SCSI backend (maybe create > a pluggable medium backends), and add either a HAL or a CAM backend to > that. I don't have the time to lay this framework, but if the brasero > people did it, I would add the CAM backend (and HAL is already there). It sounds like it's good time to add DEPRECATED/EXPIRATION_DATE in brasero. I would say give brasero two or three months for someone to fix it before we remove it from ports tree. What do you think? Cheers, Mezz > Joe -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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