I think the discussion about what format the CD driver should support is a
mute point. Thierry will implement what he can/wants to implement. We
really can only offer suggestions. I'll take what ever Thierry is willing
to write, use it, and then think about any expanded capabilities.
Personally, I'd like to see the CD driver be able to read both QWA and
ISO9660 formated CD's. Native QWA CD's would really be nice just to keen
pure QLish on the Q40 (maybe even have CD-RW capabilities on the
Q40). Reading ISO9660 will allow the Q40 to read just about any CD out there.
It would be nice if the CD driver was written so that additional formats
could be added in with little work. IRIX works like this. It supports
CD's formated in ISO9660, efs, HFS, and so on. The new IRIX tape driver
(TS) is a generic tape driver with personallity daemons. This way support
for additional tape drives can be added without changing the kernel and
just change the personality daemon. It would be nice if the CD driver
could be like this.
But, this is only a suggestion. Since I'm not doing the CD driver work,
it's not my place to say what it should do. I leave that to the great and
wonderful person doing the work (OK, a slight suck up...).
And I am very interested in looking over the source code, be it in C or
assembly.
Tim Swenson
