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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:28:46 -0400
From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Saten Shih <SatenShih@via.com.tw>,
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Subject: Re: I want to write our NIC Driver for FREEBSD !!
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Greg Lehey:
 |Saten Shih:
 |> 2. How can I install our driver from floppy disk?
...
 |3.  Finally, if that didn't work, you could distribute multiple
 |    versions of the LKM on floppy.
 |
 |I think that alternative (3) would be a real headache.  The -CURRENT
 |version of FreeBSD changes several times a day.  From time to time
 |changes occur which require recompilation of all LKMs.  A person using
 |-CURRENT would almost certainly have trouble with a driver supplied in
 |LKM form on floppy.

Right.  So like with most other OSs, binary-only driver dists would most
likely only be worth targetting at released versions, such as 2.2.6.

Randy

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