Re: Adding new device support

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:52:03PM -0700, Hendrik Groeneveld wrote:
> OK, off my soap-box and back to my original question. I need support for a
> Promise 20267 IDE controller because that's what the system I have
> available for Hurd is using. What is the best way to proceed?

This depends on how much time you want to devote to this goal.  If you just
need it to make work for you, anyhing that works is good enough, just as
Roland said.  If you want to do it "right", you want to integrate 2.4.x
stuff to OSKit, and have oskit-mach work.

> I would like to know that the effort will be useful to the
> community at large and that there is a reasonable chance of getting my
> changes incorporated into the "distribution" so that I won't have to
> repeat the process every time I update my code base.

Anything that doesn't break existing systems and isn't worse than what we
have now can go into the linux driver part of gnumach.

But your time is much more usefully spend on oskit-mach if you want to make
it useful to a broad community.

Thanks,
Marcus

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