Brasero on FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:15 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:26:01 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:06:50 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke  
> > <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 03:52 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> As a co-maintainer of Brasero i'm tempted to ask why FreeBSD hasn't
> >>> brasero 0.7.0 on the ports tree. None of us are using FreeBSD sadly but
> >>> we can work together to make it work better for FreeBSD if it isn't
> >>> working atm. Please bump brasero.
> >>
> >> To those interested, I updated the port to 0.7.0, but there are caveats.
> >> I have not tested the runtime.  It requires the Linux SG SCSI support
> >> which means it's limited to recent RELENG_6, RELENG_7, or -CURRENT.  You
> >> will also need the following in your kernel:
> >>
> >> device		sg
> >
> > Interesting, I don't know about sg. Bummer, there is no module for it. I  
> > can rebuild my kernel tonight or tomorrow and test it.
> 
> Umm... It looks like HAL doesn't like sg device in kernel. The HAL just  
> doesn't function unless I boot in old kernel that has no sg. If I insert  
> blank CD or DVD and it doesn't auto recoginze blank CD/DVD unless I reboot  
> to use kernel without sg. I have tested it twice to make sure to boot in  
> kernel with and without sg. If you want me to debug, then I can and I will  
> have to check in FAQ for how to debug HAL.

Looks like sg isn't going to work, then.  It would be a massive
undertaking to port brasero to CAM the way it is now since only a file
descriptor is passed to the SCSI code, and CAM would require the whole
path (or a cam device struct).  This will mean lots of ifdefs.

What might be better is to conditionalize the SCSI backend (maybe create
a pluggable medium backends), and add either a HAL or a CAM backend to
that.  I don't have the time to lay this framework, but if the brasero
people did it, I would add the CAM backend (and HAL is already there).

Joe

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