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Date:      Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:39:11 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        dima@rdy.com
Cc:        Carl Makin <carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Old stallion drivers in -stable. 
Message-ID:  <200011070039.eA70dBF29045@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:27:58 PST." <200011070027.eA70RwE12375@sivka.rdy.com> 

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> Mike Smith writes:
> > 
> > I understand that Dima Ruban (copied) was working on this, but I haven't 
> > heard anything from him recently.
> 
> I am, but I got somewhat distracted. But I don't have a _set_ of these cards.
> All I've got is EC64 PCI, which wasn't initially supported by this driver.
> So even when I fix the driver to work with a new bus, I can't guarantee that
> it's gonna work of each and every card it was suposed to support.
> 
> > If Dima isn't having any success, and someone was willing to send me a 
> > representative set of these cards, I would be happy to do the work
> > (and I think that BSDi would be happy to sponsor it).

Ok.  In this case, my offer still stands.  If someone wants to get me a 
set of these cards, I will port and test the driver as soon as I can fit 
it into my schedule (should be fairly quickly).

Then I'll drop it on Dima to maintain.  That sounds fair, right? 8) 8) 8)
-- 
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to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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