
                                 Porting notes
                                       
   Porting WorkMan to a new platform is a two-step process. The first
   step is to get the XView toolkit, version 3.0 or higher, running on
   your system. If you're lucky, someone else has already done so. The
   alt.toolkits.xview and comp.windows.open-look newsgroups are good
   places to find out whether XView exists for your system.
   
   Once you have XView installed, you can work on porting WorkMan itself.
   If your system has builtin libraries for manipulating audio CDs, you
   can use them. Or you can use your system's user-level SCSI interface,
   if any. (Or both!)
   
   All of the user interface modules ought to compile without
   modification. For the most part they're just standard C and documented
   XView calls.
   
   The platform-dependent code in WorkMan is in source files named
   plat_xxx.c, where xxx is the platform name. If you look at a directory
   listing you'll see that there are files like this for Sun, HP, Linux,
   and other platforms already. Each of these files (called "platform
   modules") contains a set of well-defined functions for controlling and
   getting information from a CD-ROM drive. You'll find a list of those
   functions below. Ordinarily, porting WorkMan is simply a matter of
   writing those functions for your platform, and you can usually use one
   of the existing platform modules as a starting point.
   
   WorkMan supports the notion of running any kind of drive on any
   platform, assuming the platform has facilities for sending arbitrary
   SCSI commands from user processes. To this end, you'll also find
   "drive modules" named drv_xxx.c. Each drive module contains
   replacement functions along the lines of the functions in the platform
   modules; these replacement functions are called when the drive doesn't
   respond to generic requests or when something unusual needs to be
   done. For instance, the Sony CDU-8012 (also known as the SunCD drive)
   has a weird volume scale, so we need to do a transformation on the
   volume setting before passing it to the drive. But other than that,
   the drive responds to generic CD-ROM commands, so drv_sony.c only has
   code relating to volume control.
   
   Implementing drive modules is fairly simple, but usually isn't
   necessary so it won't be discussed here. Mail me if you need to do it.
   
   Here are the functions a platform module needs to implement. All
   functions should return integers. Unless otherwise noted, they should
   return 0 on okay status, -1 on an error condition.
   
   The first parameter of each function is a pointer to a wm_drive
   structure. You'll find it defined in "struct.h". It's discussed after
   the function call list. You will probably find it helpful to look at
   one of the existing platform modules while reading this list. The Sun
   module is one of the simpler ones.
   
   wmcd_open(struct wm_drive *d)
          Figure out the drive type and fill in pointers to the rest of
          the routines listed here. This routine should set up the device
          to receive CD-ROM commands if necessary. If the wm_drive
          structure says the drive is already open, this routine should
          return 0 -- in other words, it shouldn't hurt to call wmcd_open
          ten times in a row. If the drive couldn't be opened yet, or
          initialization couldn't be performed yet, the function should
          clean up and return 1; it will be called again after a short
          delay. A common example is an open() call failing because
          there's no CD in the drive.
          
          wmcd_open() should determine the drive type if possible. If the
          wm_scsi() function has been implemented, it can simply call
          wm_scsi_get_drive_type() (which is in scsi.c) to retrieve the
          necessary information. Then find_drive_struct() (from cdrom.c)
          should be called to look up the drive from the list of drive
          modules; it returns a pointer to a wm_drive structure, which
          should be copied into the buffer pointed to by the "d"
          parameter. Finally, the drive init function should be called.
          
          Some systems can't determine the drive type at all, for
          instance because the CD-ROM drive can only be accessed through
          a limited set of function calls. In that case, just pass empty
          strings to find_drive_struct() and it'll return a wm_drive
          structure pointing to the generic platform module routines.
          
   wm_scsi(struct wm_drive *d, unsigned char *cdb, int cdblen, unsigned
          char *buf, int len, int getdata)
          Send a command to the SCSI device referenced by the wm_drive
          structure. A CDB of appropriate size is passed in, as is a data
          buffer. If "getdata" is true, read some data into the buffer in
          response to the command. Otherwise the buffer might contain
          some data to be written out as part of the command. "buf" can
          be NULL if the caller doesn't want to pass in or receive any
          data. Return -1 if the command doesn't complete successfully.
          If your system doesn't support SCSI passthrough, this function
          should just return -1 without doing anything else.
          
   The following functions can be overridden by drive modules, as they're
   always called indirectly via the wm_drive structure.
   
   gen_init(struct wm_drive *d)
          Initialize whatever drive-specific settings are required. For
          the platform module this is usually just { return (0); } since
          any platform-specific initialization should be performed in
          wmcd_open(), but the function needs to be defined.
          
   gen_get_trackcount(struct wm_drive *d, int *tracks)
          Store the number of tracks on the CD in *tracks.
          
   gen_get_cdlen(struct wm_drive *d, int *frames)
          Store the total number of frames on the CD in *frames.
          
   gen_get_trackinfo(struct wm_drive *d, int track, int *data, int
          *startframe)
          Get the starting frame number and type (1 = data track, 0 =
          audio) of a particular track. Tracks are numbered starting at
          1, as on the CD.
          
   gen_get_drive_status(struct wm_drive *d, enum mode oldmode, enum mode
          *mode, int *pos, int *track, int *index)
          Get the current status of the drive. Mode is one of PLAYING,
          PAUSED, TRACK_DONE, STOPPED, and EJECTED, as is oldmode (which
          will be the previous mode value returned by the routine.) The
          other parameters are filled in if the drive is playing or
          paused: the absolute position in frames, the track number, and
          the index number.
          
   gen_get_volume(struct wm_drive *d, int *left, int *right)
          Get the current volume settings for the left and right
          channels, or -1 if that information can't be read from the
          drive. Values range from 0 to 100 on a linear scale.
          
   gen_set_volume(struct wm_drive *d, int left, int right)
          Set the current volume for each channel. Values are from 0 to
          100, on the same linear scale as returned by gen_get_volume().
          
   gen_pause(struct wm_drive *d)
          Pause the CD.
          
   gen_resume(struct wm_drive *d)
          Resume playing the CD after a pause.
          
   gen_stop(struct wm_drive *d)
          Stop the CD if it's playing or paused.
          
   gen_play(struct wm_drive *d, int start, int end)
          Play a stretch of the CD. Both times are in frames. This can
          return negative values other than -1 if playing a CD is a
          multi-step process, e.g. a "start motor" command followed by a
          "play audio" command.
          
   gen_eject(struct wm_drive *d)
          Eject the CD. Return -3 if the CD can't be ejected because it
          contains a mounted filesystem.
          
   The wm_drive structure has at least the following elements:
struct wm_drive {
        int     fd;             /* File descriptor, if used by platform */
        char    vendor[16];     /* Vendor name */
        char    model[24];      /* Drive model */
        void    *aux;           /* Pointer to optional platform-specific info *
/
        void    *daux;          /* Pointer to optional drive-specific info */

        int     (*init)();
        int     (*get_trackcount)();
        int     (*get_cdlen)();
        int     (*get_trackinfo)();
        int     (*get_drive_status)();
        int     (*get_volume)();
        int     (*set_volume)();
        int     (*pause)();
        int     (*resume)();
        int     (*stop)();
        int     (*play)();
        int     (*eject)();
}

   The "fd" and/or "aux" elements should be filled in by the wmcd_open()
   function after find_drive_struct() is called. The "fd" element is for
   an open file descriptor pointing to the drive, though if your platform
   doesn't use file descriptors to refer to CD-ROM drives (e.g. the
   BSD/386 platform, whose CD library uses structure pointers) you can
   use the "fd" element for something else or ignore it completely.
   
   The "aux" element should be used to point to any state information you
   need to keep across calls to these functions. Since WorkMan may
   eventually support controlling multiple drives simultaneously, you
   should not use global variables to keep per-drive state. Define a
   structure for whatever state you need, and point "aux" to it. You can
   get at it in any of the routines since they are all passed the
   wm_drive structure you fill in in wmcd_open(). On many platforms,
   "aux" isn't needed.
   
   The "daux" element is reserved for use in drive modules.
   
   If you have questions, don't hesitate to send me E-mail. I want to see
   WorkMan as widely ported as possible.
   
   -Steven Grimm [1]<koreth@hyperion.com>
   
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