Bug#290753: ITP: dgap -- driver for Digi Acceleport PCI multiport serial cards

[Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : dgap
  Version         : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Digi International
* URL             : http://www.digi.com
* License         : GPL w/separate non-free firmwares
  Description     : driver for Digi Acceleport PCI multiport serial cards

This will go into contrib; the sources up on Digi's support site also contain
the firmwares needed by the cards. I'll split the firmware files from the
source package to put them in non-free, where they belong. I'm currently
verifying that we can redistribute the files, as there's no mention of 
anything concerning the firmware files in the source package.

The dgap driver obsoletes the epca driver which is included in the vanilla
kernel distribution. It supports only the PCI cards, and works on Linux
2.4 and 2.6.

The source package will produce 2 binary packages in contrib:

Package: dgap-tools
Description: support utilities for the Digi Acceleport multiport serial cards
 This package contains support utilities related to the dgap driver for Digi
 Acceleport multiport serial cards:
 .
  o mpi - driver management utility
  o dinc - a cu/tip replacement
  o ditty - an stty replacement
  o dpa - a port monitoring/testing utility

Package: dgap-source
Description: Digi Acceleport multiport serial cards driver
 This package contains the sources of the dgap driver for Digi Acceleport
 multiport serial cards.
 .
 This driver supports only the following PCI Acceleport cards, on both Linux
 v2.4 and Linux v2.6 :
 .
  o Acceleport Xem
  o Acceleport Xr
  o Acceleport Xr 920
  o Acceleport C/X
  o Acceleport EPC/X
  o Acceleport Xr/422
  o Acceleport 2r/920
  o Acceleport 4r/920
  o Acceleport 8r/920
  o IBM 8-Port Asynchronous PCI Adapter
  o IBM 128-Port Asynchronous PCI Adapter


And an additional package in non-free:

Package: dgap-data
Description: firmware files for the Digi Acceleport multiport serial cards
 This package contains the firmware files needed by the dgap driver for
 Digi Acceleport multiport serial cards.


JB.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)