From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 14:22:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12018 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA12013 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA29814 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:22:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA21382; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:20:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970415232041.NW34951@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:20:41 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial vendors registry References: <199704141539.KAA02603@compound.east.sun.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704141539.KAA02603@compound.east.sun.com>; from Tony Kimball on Apr 14, 1997 10:39:11 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tony Kimball wrote: > : So what? Do you want us to remove these drivers? > : > > It would seem sensible to move decaying software into a separate > distribution system, a la ports, were there sufficient reason to > motivate the effort. Hmm. Not sure how to do this. However, i think we should drop them from the list of supported hardware first, and create an addendum for `other hardware' in the release notes and installation docs. This way, people should know beforehand that they aren't going to expect the same level of support when using these drivers like for the major hardware. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)