Willing to adopt Firewire (was Re: your mail)
Eugene M. Kim
ab at astralblue.net
Mon May 22 20:39:09 UTC 2006
Robert Watson wrote:
> Yes -- we're beginning to reach the point where we can start issuing
> ultimatums on device drivers, but need USB and Firewire dealt with
> before we can begin to push out stragglers. For better or worse,
> those two hardware categories can't be ignored. Being at a point
> where we can universally make assumptions about MPSAFEty is a very
> good place to be, and we're very close with the network stack.
Quick question: Has anyone stepped up for MP-guarding Firewire and
boys? I plan to begin hacking Firewire code soon (mainly to add support
for 1394 audio devices), so I probably can adopt them if they've been
orphaned.
Eugene
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