Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:43:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hans@artcom.de (Hans Huebner), julian@ivision.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <199805192043.NAA00445@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 16:07:52 %2B0200." <199805191407.QAA02408@sos.freebsd.dk>
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> In reply to Hans Huebner who wrote: > > > > >What am I going to need to do in order to get to use the drive? I > > >really would rather use it on a -STABLE system even if I then apply > > >a patch to that (potentially rendering it less stable) > > > > I'm beginning to get sick of this. I did port the the LBA code from > > -current to -stable, it works for me since weeks, and it works for > > several other people. I see no reason to not put that into -stable, > > and I'd really like to see that. 2.2.6-RELEASE is what people new > > to FreeBSD are installing, and it should support current hardware, if > > feasible. Supporting large IDE drives is feasible, so why not commit > > it? > > Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that > should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing > is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable... > There has to be a line drawn somewhere.... The inability to support current hardware is a bug. The LBA code represents an available fix for this bug. If the code has been backported, and review of said code passes it, I would be very happy to see it go into 2.2. We are going to wear a lot of flak about this otherwise. -- \\ 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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