Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:07:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: Lite-On PNIC (fwd) Message-ID: <199810071907.MAA01756@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:38:44 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810071431420.16487-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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> On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > You're proposing to provide Bill with examples of -all- the different > > > varients of the Tulip cards and enough hard drugs to keep in in the state > > > of mind required to do the work? > > > > I was actually planning on just feeding the non-Digital-based cards to > > Bill, as most of them are cut-downs. We're certainly more than happy > > to facilitate providing hardware to developers, especially ones with > > track records like Bill's. 8) > > You didn't say anything about the hard drugs. :) Send me your PGP key first. Remember I'm a furriner in this country; the're watching me. 8) > > It almost certainly would be. The problem is that the 'de' driver is > > (meant to be) maintained by Matt Thomas, who has been extremely quiet > > of late (due to a move and other things). We've supplied Matt with > > hardware in the past (eg. a Macronix card a month or so back), but his > > responses have been kinda patchy, and as you've seen the net result is > > an almost unmaintainable mess. > > Humm... My experience with Matt has been rather good but the last time I > talked to him re: the de driver was about 3 years ago when I was trying to > get a Znyx 314 card to work. Matt's very much dedicated to the 'de' driver; he's just very employable and thus very busy. > In all likelyhood the multi OS nature of the de driver is what is causing > the most problem. That and the fact that it's grown organically without having been designed for it. I remember way back when it was first imported, it was neat, clean and easy to follow. Kinda like the 'ed' driver, only worse. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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