HEADSUP usb2/usb4bsd to become default in GENERIC
Martin Wilke
miwi at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 8 05:59:31 PST 2009
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May be also a ports exp-run to make sure you don't break to many
ports?
- - Martin
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:53:49PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Hello -current and -usb.
>
> We are in the final stages of bringing in the new usb
> stack.
>
> Features include: SMP, better device support, speed increases.
>
> We hope to make it in for 8.0. It will really take a unified effort
> to make this all work and I look forward to all contributors input.
>
> We have a few large steps ahead of us and I wanted to lay out the
> schedule so that people understand what is coming and what to expect.
>
> At this point we expect there to be no style or changes in usb2
> that are not bugfixes until Phase 3 "Hand off". The reason for
> this is to prevent bugs from creeping in and allow the maintainer
> to focus 100% on bugs and feature parity with the oldusb stack.
>
> Here is the plan and timeline:
>
> Phase 1) Make usb2 the default, by enabling it in GENERIC.
>
> * Sunday 8 Feb 2009 -- Toggle the usb2 knob in GENERIC
>
> - Add all the usb2 options to NOTES, including commented
> documentation about recommended usb2 'sets' of options,
> and the usual NOTES-based hints about the options.
>
> - Update GENERIC to use usb2 device names.
>
> - Bump __FreeBSD_version and edit UPDATING to note usb2 is now the
> default.
>
> - Verify that it still possible to use the old usb code as a
> fallback, until we are ready to detach and remove it from /head
>
> * Sunday 22 Feb 2009 -- Go through quirks in old-usb code and port
> over any remaining bits to usb2
>
> - Lock the oldusb code for 2 weeks, until the next usb2
> checkpoint, to verify usb2 is a viable replacement without
> having to keep chasing a moving oldusb target.
>
> Phase 2) Removing the oldusb code.
>
> * Sunday 15 Mar 2009 -- usb2 bug busting weekend
>
> - Go through the open usb2 problem reports, and see if there are
> any usb2 blocker bugs that need fixing.
>
> - If the bug hunt shows we are ready to do away with oldusb,
> unlink the old usb code from the build, but leave it in for
> a few more days.
>
> * Sunday 22 Mar 2009 -- remove oldusb code.
>
> - old usb code will be removed.
>
> Phase 3) Hand-off.
>
> * Sunday 29 Mar 2009 -- usb2 hand over to src-committers
>
> - The switch from a private Hans-only repository to the main
> subversion tree.
>
> - At this point, the usb2 is handed over to the src-committers
> and Hans has to go through a mentor/committer before committing
> changes.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> - Alfred Perlstein
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