Hi Warner,
Thanks for your detailed writeup of the direction that you want to go in.
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> What can you do to help?
>
Well, firstly I'd like to get the xe driver under FreeBSD. But before I
even get to that stage, I'll have to learn about the pccard subsystem,
and more about the FreeBSD kernel internals. I've had a look at the man
pages Doug Rabson wrote for the device attach code - they are very good
- and thought about writing a man page for pccard (4) that would detail
the ioctl's provided by the system, and other man pages that would detail
the design of the pccard subsystem. I suppose the eventual goal of this
work would be to have a 'howto-write-a-pccard-driver-for-freebsd' howto.
In any case, before porting the xe driver I'll have to have a clue on
how to do the port, so this howto should be an easy by-product.
I've got -current (12th dec sources) on an IBM 365X, and I can/will use
that box for testing. Unfortunately, the network connection is by
floppy-net, and so I'm not too keen on reinstalling lots of software
on it. But I'll try to track -current reasonably closely (fortnightly).
As usual, I'm constrained on time. So I'm not going to make any commitments
on getting stuff done! By the same token, I don't expect anyone else to get
anything done, and I'll certainly not make demands on FreeBSD, or its
developers. I doubt that I'd get the xe driver ported before 4.0 is released.
What help do you require?
Regards,
Mike Kennett
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