From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 11:28:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEC316A4D0 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3885843F3F for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DrZiplok@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hB5JSaWQ011577; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (c-24-7-66-113.client.comcast.net [24.7.66.113]) (authenticated bits=0)hB5JSaaN007052; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:28:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20031205103549.Y27123@root.org> References: <1070640554.22666.14.camel@bigboot.humphrey.world> <20031205103549.Y27123@root.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <372147CC-2759-11D8-9E07-000393C72BD6@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Smith Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:28:33 -0800 To: acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: A word of support for Nate Lawson... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:28:40 -0000 Folks, I've said this to Nate in person, but I think that perhaps it's worth making the point to a wider audience. I'm really impressed, and very happy from FreeBSD's perspective that Nate's working as hard and as successfully as he has on ACPI support. From a technical standpoint, it's a difficult problem even with Intel's immeasurable contribution to the effort. However, it's on the where-does-this-affect-FreeBSD front that ACPI is really significant. Without working ACPI support, FreeBSD will not run properly on a wide range of modern hardware. If that should come to pass, the system will have degenerated to the bad old days where you had to have The Right Motherboard and The Right SCSI Controller and The Right Disk and The Right Mouse. Don't take this as an attack on ACPI's detractors, or on the FreeBSD developers that aren't working on the code; I just want to offer my thanks and admiration to Nate (and for that matter all of the acpi-jp folks, Intel's contributors very much included) for the work that's in a very real and concrete sense keeping FreeBSD alive for tomorrow. = Mike On Dec 5, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Nate Lawson wrote: > A general FYI for ACPI users... I work on FreeBSD on the bus each day > and > a few hours on the weekend so I can't address every individual problem > report. My main focus with that time is to implement and bring in new > code that fixes whole classes of problems. There's still too much not > implemented to spend a lot of time tracking down individual bugs, > although > I do pay attention to them. My hope is that fixing known inadequate > parts > will take care of more bugs in less time than investigating every > problem > report serially. > > Thanks, > -Nate >