On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:18:21PM +0000, matteo brancaleoni wrote: > Yes. that's for 2 reasons: > Vihai works with us (voismart) and he's full time busy with gsm card > development (25% of time), > visdn rewriting (75% of time). > I think he's not answering since coding is taking a lot of time... and > he prefers ending the rewrite sooner rather than answering emails. Also > because many issues the ML reported will no longer exists in the new > "visdn".
Hi Matteo, thanks for letting us know the state of visdn. I too saw visdn as the last, best hope for ISDN in linux. (cue bablyon 5 music) :-) The problem is that people will se an almost abandoned website and figure nothing much is happening here and move on. Except for some snapshots hiding in the download directory nothing changes. :) Hiding the development alienates the more interested users and cuts you off from potentially valuable feedback. No releases necessary, but letting us peek at the version control system and do a check out would be nice. I also hope that you don't underestimate the value of having this driver in the mainline linux kernel. It would make inclusion of telephony software in linux distributions orders of magnitude simpler as opposed to maintaining separate kernel modules (like misdn, zaptel, closed source capi drivers, etc.) The linux developers also resist large out-of-the-blue code-drops that were developed in someones backroom for a long time and then expect to get slipped into the kernel. I am hoping you're aiming for inclusion in the kernel. > A lot of knowledge is needed to take over visdn development... not only > kernel programming but also isdn stuff and so on. I think that for sure > someone is capable of doing this, but certain knowledge is not so > common. > > As I wrote before... 75% of vihai time is about visdn rewriting... this > rewrite has not touched the isdn protocol stuff (q921/q931) but mainly > the "voice" part, to be more general, to be able to interconnect > different hw (eg a dsp board to an hfc pcm bus...), better EC, no more > voice delay issues and so on... > The "new" visdn will have a different name (maybe) and the isdn/gsm will > be something that will use the new infrastructure. So . told that, when > all this stuff will be ready? Our gsm card driver is already running on > the new infrastructure... (this happened 2 weeks ago) Orlandi is now > porting the hfc & isdn channel driver also... a voice call has also been > made :) > > So please wait... I'm sure that everyone will not be disappointed... So I guess in conclusion, please share with your users before we're all gone. It would make your life simpler, just having to maintain a vgsm driver, but you're aiming higher than that right? ;-) And please start working towards kernel inclusion if that's where you want to be. -- Best regards. Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Visdn-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uli.it/mailman/listinfo/visdn-hackers
