Willing to adopt Firewire (was Re: your mail)

[John-Mark Gurney]

Eugene M. Kim wrote this message on Mon, May 22, 2006 at 13:36 -0700:
> 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.

Nope, not that I've heard...  I regularly use firewire on my -current
box, so I can help review/commit changes to firewire, or you can talk
w/ simokawa about it too...  We'll need to cordinate w/ simokawa
anyways...

/me wonders if simokawa goes to CBUG meetings.

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