kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs

[Joerg Schilling]

The following reply was made to PR kern/138851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:05:40 +0200

 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
 
 > > Why should FreeBSD not by default include a technology that is
 > > available since 7 years?
 >
 > The support for ATAPICAM is loadable as a kernel module too.  We can
 > probably add ATAPICAM to the default 'GENERIC' kernel config file.  It
 > may also be useful to patch cdrtools to try kldload-ing "atapicam.ko"
 > when it detects that "dev.atapicam.0.%driver" is not available as a
 > sysctl knob.
 
 If you believe that this is needed and helps, please help with the 
 implementation as I plan to pulish cdrtools-3.0-final in areox. 2 weeks.
 
 Jörg
 
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