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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Nate Lawson wrote:

> > Very shortly after that, you will realize that *you* have to fix the
> > broken code, and that your pet project upon which depends upon this broken
> > code will have to be put on the back burner.
>
> Muagh! (expression of intense dismay).  I'm in the middle of that right
> now as CPUs need to gain newbus attachments for my cpufreq driver.  And I
> was just dragged through it finding all the ways APIC ids, ACPI Processor
> ids, and PCPU ids can all not line up.
>
> Actually, working on ACPI has become an exercise in how deep on the stack
> I can recurse.  I think it started somewhere when I was working on CAM and
> my laptop wouldn't suspend correctly and I thought "hmm, let's figure out
> why".
>
> -Nate

I think that FreeBSD can best be visualized as a vast desert full of
committers who are totally lost.

I think that I've only accomplished one of the five things I planned to do
when I first got my commit bit.  Worse yet, I only remember three of the
five. :(

Mike "Silby" Silbersack