Re: CAN bus support

On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 3:06 PM Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/9/24 13:57, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> > A FreeBSD vendor is interested in interacting with CAN bus on FreeBSD.
> > [...]
> > Is there other interest or concern about the topic?
>
> As release engineer, I'm interested in hearing more (perhaps off-list)
> about what they're doing, since the time scales for most devices which
> use a CAN bus are significantly longer than the time scales for FreeBSD
> releases.

It is an amd64 appliance with a bus attached controller and not a
special SoC so it probably shouldn't be impactful to arch support
expectations.

> No obligation of course, and they're free to do whatever works for them;
> this is purely a case of "knowing more about how FreeBSD is being used
> might help us support said uses better".

I'll find out some more information and see what is appropriate from
their perspective to share.

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> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>