Re: [9fans] bge

[jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com]

>From the Fount of All Knowledge:

uriel     (from what I recall, there are some issues with something
          reading one byte at a time or somesuch, but I'm personally
          clueless about USB stack internals, but the people
          I have heard talk about it do have a clue)
          didn't jmk ask for testers of the damn broadcom drivers
          like months ago? /me has yet to see a single line of
          code of them... *Sigh*

I think you are referring to this:

On Fri Feb 10 23:14:07 EST 2006, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> As mentioned last week, Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>
> has volunteered some time to work on the 57xx driver.
> I'm expecting a laptop with a 44xx chip to arrive while
> I am away all next week. Whether I'll decide to piss myself off
> with the Atheros driver or the Broadcom driver first is up for
> grabs, send your votes in.
>
> On Fri Feb 10 22:38:41 EST 2006, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:03 PM, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> >
> > > Which bge, the 44xx or the 57xx?
> >
> > 57xx.  (Dell Latitude D610)

which does not ask for testers, only votes, and was less than a
month ago. Anyway, a BCM4401 driver has been written and
is being tested by others. However, in light of the following:

uriel     the live CD needs a bit of polishing, but I plan to
          merge it with the installer
          but before that comes killing 9load

I'll just hang on to it and save myself the time and trouble of
polishing it off until I can integrate it with your replacement
for 9load (if necessary). Let me know when it's ready.

--jim