HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 EoLs coming soon

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 01 September 2010 18:53:46 Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > FreeBSD -7 & -8 do not support ISDN I'm told.
> > So 6.4 is the last working FreeBSD ISDN.
> > 
> > Could FreeBSD reinsert ISDN back into current/8/7 support ?
> > Perhaps via:
> > - a student SOC project ?
> > - FreeBSD foundation paying a FreeBSD consultant (I know one who has the
> > 
> >   expertise already, has the time, & could use some money (I don't mean
> >   me, & he didn't aske me to post this, it'll come as a suprise to him
> >   :-)
> > 
> > - Or whatever other method to get ISDN back in kernel ?
> 
> It seems code exists :-)
> 
> http://old.nabble.com/ISDN4BSD-on-8-current-td23919925.html
> 	ISDN4BSD package has been updated to compile on FreeBSD
> 	8-current
> 
> 	http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/isdn4bsd/
> 
> Apparently needs massaging into main FreeBSD tree.

I agree that my I4B code should be re-written somewhat before committed. 
Possibly we should update the API's present too, to support IP-telephony 
aswell.

--HPS