[Asterisk-bsd] NetBSD driver update: Help?

[Brian Buhrow]

	Hello Peter.  Yes, I care.  I'm running ASterisk zaptel on NetBSD, and
I'm still running NetBSD-2.0, with the pre-port version of the zaptel and
ztdummy drivers.  I did some work on the stuff that went into the pkgsrc
tree, corresponding with Jeff while he was doing the work, and I'd be happy
to help out in any way I can, trying to answer specific questions, loading
test drivers on a test box.  
Questions for you:

1.  Are you trying to make something compatible with 4.x and higher, or are
you still including 3.x compatibility?

2.  What lead you to believe it was best to re-port the entire driver,
rather than just patching the changes in?
My understanding is that FreeBSD has evolved quite a bit in the
interveening two years, and so if you could just distill what functional
additions were made, it might be easier to just add those to the existing
working infrastructure.

-Brian

On Sep 15,  1:57pm, Peter Seebach wrote:
} Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] NetBSD driver update: Help?
} In message <200609122040.k8CKekM6005817 at guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writ
} es:
} >If I load wcfxs, I generally get panics or hangs, and I don't think I
} >understand the code entirely well enough to get a good start on debugging
} >this.  I would appreciate second opinions.  It looks as though the interrupt
} >routine is what's causing the most trouble, but I'm not sure.  (On a secondary
} >note; is it normal for a 3215-based FXO module on the card to fail to probe
} >if there's no phone line on it yet?  It gave some warning about failing to
} >come ready.)
} 
} Hi!  I am still stumped.
} 
} Does anyone have ANY input?  Suggestions?  Even just a basic understanding
} of what the driver does and how the card works, so I can ask questions about
} what a given chunk of code is supposed to do?
} 
} I am reliably getting various weirdness, such as "kernel hangs completely
} when driver is loaded" or "panic in unrelated parts of kernel", all of which
} suggest to me that there's some key step in porting from FreeBSD that I don't
} know about, but I don't really have anything to go on here.
} 
} Any interest?  Is the zaptel-BSD code still maintained?  Does anyone care
} whether it runs on *BSD other than FreeBSD/x86?
} 
} -s
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>-- End of excerpt from Peter Seebach