Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:05:32 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <20040122120532.GA57007@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040121153443.T593@odysseus.silby.com> References: <200401210150.i0L1oSmg073908@repoman.freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040121072744.042fd958@imap.sfu.ca> <20040121015059.D56100@odysseus.silby.com> <20040121093008.O3009@root.org> <20040121140858.W528@odysseus.silby.com> <20040121131001.P3938@root.org> <20040121153443.T593@odysseus.silby.com>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:03:40PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > 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. Yes, and their means of communication is about as advanced as a pair of empty pea cans connected with a piece of string. For reasons that escape me we call that email ;) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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