Re: porting libburnia to kfreebsd

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

as introduction to debian-bsd@lists.debian.org:

I am the current developer of libburn
  http://libburnia-project.org/
which can write CD/DVD/BD on Linux and FreeBSD.

The compile time failure in
  https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=libburn&ver=0.6.4-1&arch=kfreebsd-i386&file=log
is caused by two missing files. A patch release
is emerging. It will build but not be able to
operate optical drives directly.


The reason why you get involved is the question
whether i shall flatly enable our FreeBSD SCSI
adapter for a Debian system on FreeBSD kernel.

As an alternative one could plan for using the
next release of libcdio as adapter. It has been
made ready for SCSI write commands on Linux,
meanwhile.
Augmenting its FreeBSD driver would need a tester,
too.

Nevertheless the old libcdio demo program
  example/mmc1.c
may already be used to determine whether FreeBSD
CAM is working on arch=kfreebsd-i386 .
If that example works, then the existing FreeBSD
adapter of libburn is supposed to work too.

It inquires the vendor, model and revision of a
CD/DVD/BD drive:

  $ ./example/mmc1 /dev/sr2
  Vendor: HL-DT-ST
  Model: BDDVDRW GGC-H20L
  Revision: 1.03

In that case i would enable the FreeBSD adapter
for Debian on FreeBSD kernel and ask politely for
testing.


Please Cc me with your replies.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas