Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 11:05:46 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Joe Kelsey" <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.3-RELEASE versus 5.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <e7db6d980806091105h36b6eee8s47a63a23bf4bca57@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <484CD995.3040002@zircon.seattle.wa.us> References: <484CD995.3040002@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> wrote: > Can anyone verify that some number of bugs related to either a) gmirror, b) > bge and/or c)twe were fixed after the release of 6.3? That is as far as I > can tell the reason that Jo objets to EoL of 6.2, the fact that 6.3 is > unusable due to these late-fixed bugs. I can't speak for gmirror. But I suspect the bigger problem with bge and 3ware is that the drivers attempt to provide coverage for many many variants of hardware. The bge driver covers (at last count) 59 different chips and variants. New variants keep on arriving, with new bugs and new fixes, so our driver requires updates for these *new* chips. There's the catch. The same driver in 6.2 would require the same updates. If Joe's hardware worked with 6.2, it would work with 6.3 as well. The situation is similar with 3ware. There are even two different drivers. twe and twa. twe supports two different hardware interfaces. twa has 4 different hardware interfaces. twa has been getting frequent updates to handle new variations of the 9000 series cards. Again, it seems likely that Joe's hardware would run fine with 6.3-R if it already works with 6.2-R. So far we don't even know which of the 59 variants of bge hardware Jo wants to run with, nor which 3ware driver.. let alone the 3ware variants. I don't recall him mentioning whether it is twe or twa. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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