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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

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

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/138851: FreeBSD by default does not support ATAPI CDs
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:46:28 +0300

 On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:05:40 +0200, Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
 >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.
 
 Hi Joerg,
 
 I'll try to write a patch for the latest cdrtools-devel sources
 and email it to you asap.  If it matches the preferred coding
 style of cdrtools and it successfully loads atapicam.ko on
 demand, it would be nice to see it included in this release.