Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:15:58 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <14872.20766.675326.503604@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200011192156.eAJLu5F09713@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <3A18304B.689C2CFE@glue.umd.edu> <200011192156.eAJLu5F09713@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system on a > > machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of course, > > that artifact has some useful feature(s) or functionality. If it does, I'm > > all ears. > > What "you consider" doesn't have much bearing on the situation. As for > useful functionality, this has been done to death. It should be enough > for you to accept that the platform requires it Except that it doesn't, as 'dangerously dedicated' mode shows. >, and that a goodly slice > of platform-compliant firmware and software will fail in undesirable ways > if it's not present. All of which has been explained in excruciating > detail before. Except that the software hasn't always required it previously, and it previously did not fail. Some would call this 'regression', but I suppose others will call it 'progress'. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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