Willing to adopt Firewire (was Re: your mail)

[Attilio Rao]

2006/5/22, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>:
>
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Eugene M. Kim wrote:
>
> > Robert Watson wrote:
> >> Yes -- we're beginning to reach the point where we can start issuing
> >> ultimatums on device drivers, but need USB and Firewire dealt with before
> >> we can begin to push out stragglers.  For better or worse, those two
> >> hardware categories can't be ignored.  Being at a point where we can
> >> universally make assumptions about MPSAFEty is a very good place to be, and
> >> we're very close with the network stack.
> >
> > Quick question: Has anyone stepped up for MP-guarding Firewire and boys?  I
> > plan to begin hacking Firewire code soon (mainly to add support for 1394
> > audio devices), so I probably can adopt them if they've been orphaned.
>
> Not as far as I know -- I've not seen any real activity in the Firewire code
> in some time, and certainly no movement in the direction of making it MPSAFE.
> Your contribution here would be much appreciated!

As I pointed out privately to Robert, I would like to work on USB
stack in order to make it MP-SAFE.
I don't know if I have to coordinate with somebody, since the only
reference which lives in the code is about Lennart Augustsson from
NetBSD... who is responsible for this part of the tree?

Attilio

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