Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:03:40 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <20040121153443.T593@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20040121131001.P3938@root.org> References: <200401210150.i0L1oSmg073908@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040121015059.D56100@odysseus.silby.com> <20040121140858.W528@odysseus.silby.com> <20040121131001.P3938@root.org>
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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
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