Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

[Soeren Schmidt]

It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> > Doing a backport to 4.5 will include changes to the ATA driver in the
> > kernel as well as to burncd, and is not a trivial matter...
> 
> I feared as much. Would this be the ATAPICAM (?) stuff done for 4.6?
> OTOH, I backported the ICH sound support to 4.3; I'm not afraid of
> tinkering with the kernel. But p'raps this comparison is apples and
> oranges in terms of complexity.

I have no idea about the ATAPICAM stuff, what I'm talking about is
the hooks for burncd etc...

> > It would be far easier to upgrade the system to something newer like
> > at least 4.7 where the support is already in...
> 
> I realize this, of course. I'm hesitant to do this because some of my
> hardware is pretty old now, and I fear that the newer ATA/ATAPI sub-
> system may not like some of my hardware. I do recall quite a few posts
> about problems with the newer subsystem, but then again, quite some
> time has passed now.

Well, you need the new ATA/ATAPI system for this to work I'm afraid...

> Lemme ask you this, then: Given a FBSD 4.5 system, is the CAM xpt
> module patch (T. Quinot) and cdrecord a [more] viable option? Or am
> I basically SOOL?

I have no idea, others might have the answer to that..

-Søren