Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:49:55 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: Intel Support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20140813234955.GJ83475@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <1407967108.71480.YahooMailNeo@web121604.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1407892565.51895.YahooMailNeo@web121605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <53EAC5E8.2050207@sentex.net> <1407936252.96291.YahooMailNeo@web121601.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20140813184949.GF83475@funkthat.com> <1407967108.71480.YahooMailNeo@web121604.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Barney Cordoba wrote this message on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 14:58 -0700: > This kind of stupidity really irritates me. The commercial use of FreeBSD is the only reason that there is a project, and anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that companies with products based on freebsd can't just upgrade their tree every time some geek gets around to writing a patch. Maybe its the reason that linux sucks but everyone uses it? 10 years later, some old brain dead mentality. Clearly your gripe is w/ Intel, not the FreeBSD community.. Intel changed how they supported their driver.. We cannot change what Intel does... Please go complain to your vendor, and as you're a commercial user of their hardware, they should listen to you... > On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:49 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > > > > Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net wrote this message on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:24 -0700: > > Ok. It was a lot more convenient when it was a standalone module/tarball so you didn't have to surgically extract it from the tree and spend a week trying to get it to compile with whatever version you happened to be running. So if you're running 9.1 or 9.2 you could still use it seamlessly. > > > > Negative Progress is inevitable. > > The problem is that you are using an old version of FreeBSD that only > provides security update... The correct solution is to update your > machines... > > I'd much rather have Intel support it in tree, meaning that supported > versions of FreeBSD have an up to date driver, than to cater to your > wants of using older releases of FreeBSD... > > Thanks. > > > > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:57 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 8/12/2014 9:16 PM, Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net wrote: > > > > > I notice that there hasn't been an update in the Intel Download Center since July. Is there no official support for 10? > > > > Hi, > > The latest code is committed directly into the tree by Intel > > > > eg > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060947.html > > and > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-June/059904.html > > > > They have been MFC'd to RELENG_10 a few weeks ago -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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