Re: Adding new device support

[Hendrik Groeneveld]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> 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

Well, I want to devote as little time and effort as possible :-) Since
there is no quick and easy way to get this to work I'm here trying to find
out exactly what the "right" way is.  So far the consensus seems to be
updating the OSKit is the way to do it "right". The next question is,
where do I get the current OSKit? The oskit directory I got when I checked
hurd out of CVS is empty.

-- 
Hendrik Groeneveld
hendrik@hg.com