I tried using the matcd(4) driver nearly a year ago and was having problems with it. I tried contacting the author to remove some of the unreasonable licensing restrictions he'd put on the driver and see if he could help me, but I never got a response.
I think that it should be orphaned in 4.x and dropped in 5.0. Phil. John Baldwin wrote: > Are there any users who use the matcd(4), mcd(4) or scd(4) drivers? > These drivers are for rather old non-standard CD-ROM controllers > most of which only support 1x speeds. :) There are several changes > being made to the kernel API's used by device drivers in -current. > Unless we can find some people who actually use these devices and > can test patches for these drivers we will have to drop support for > them. So, is anyone out there still using this old hardware? Note > that if support for these ancient devices was dropped, it wouldn't > be dropped until 5.0. 4.x. would continue to support these devices > forever. > -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably a few more 'ists to boot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message