Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:41:26 -0700 (MST) | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Proprietary CD-ROM drivers |
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I while back (late August), I asked for people using any of the proprietary CD-ROM drivers to let me know. I got a pretty good response, suggesting that these drivers are still important. Now I need some help, presumably from the same group of people.
I have been working on the kernel CD-ROM drive support for a while now, and I have a patch against 2.1.64 on my web page at: http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/files.
This patch updates the Uniform CD-ROM driver, moves all the proprietary cdrom driver header files to linux/drivers/block/cdrom, does a major clean-up of cdrom.h, updates ide-cd (which I maintain) contains a preliminary port of mcd to the Uniform CD-ROM driver (works for my old drive), has preliminary (read untested) ports of a few other cdrom drivers, and a few other nice things. Unfortunatly, it is not finished though...
I am beginning to realize that in order to get all the proprietary CD-ROM drivers ported to the uniform CD-ROM driver, I am going to need some help. I simply do not have enough time to do all the work myself before 2.2 will be released. If I do not get help, I certainly will not have the time to fix up the bugs in ide-cd I know about, and start adding support for CD-R/W (everybody wants this, right?). What I am asking is for people with a proprietary CD-ROM drive to apply my patch, port the driver they use for their drive to the Uniform CD-ROM driver, and then send me the patch. To avoid duplication, please let me know of your intention to help so I can help coordinate people working on a particular driver.
Documentation on the Uniform CD-ROM driver and how to port drivers to it is contained in linux/Documentation/cdrom/cdrom-standard.tex. I have updated this documentation in my patch to reflect the updates I have made. The porting process is not difficult, so I hope I can get some parallel work going on this. Thanks for your help,
-Erik
-- Erik B. Andersen Web: http://www.inconnect.com/~andersen/ email: andersee@debian.org --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
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