Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:17:23 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> Cc: dkulp@neomorphic.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatibility list Message-ID: <199903090417.VAA03115@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199903090311.LAA18615@netrinsics.com> References: <61250.920937872@zippy.cdrom.com> <199903090311.LAA18615@netrinsics.com>
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> The mailing list archives have a sad tale to tell on this matter. > > It is not at all difficult to find places where interested parties and > working code have been turned away for failing to meet the gatekeepers' > standards for architectural purity. Architectural purity? I wouldn't call breaking the ability to run on desktops architectural purity. The problem is that PAO is inherently laptop specific, and that there are no teams of 'interested parties' aside from the PAO code that have donated code. The last code donation I dealt with was from Ted Faber, and lives in /sys/pci/pcic_p.* > I hacked on the 3.1 PC-CARD support enough to get me back to where I was with > 2.2-PAO. It was not rocket science. Try and use this same 'kernel' code on your desktop and watch it fall over. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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