Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 07:03:43 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!freebsd.org!announce, ponds!time.cdrom.com!jkh Cc: ponds!freebsd.org!current Subject: Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE will be [re]appearing shortly.. Message-ID: <199703251203.HAA00253@lakes.water.net>
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> > We found some issues with the 2940 driver and several other areas of > the system which really were on the "cusp" of being fixed, and it > seemed an unnecessary waste to make 2.2R users wait another 4 months > or so for 2.2.5 to come out before getting these fixes when we had > them available less than a week after release time (especially when > many of those fixes had already gone into an "older" release, > 2.1.7.1) and there were many emails demanding this, so... I would be happy to test out these aha2940 fixs before the "official" release if someone just points me to a GENERIC kernel. ... > > > Since the 2.2R CDROM has not yet been pressed, whatever I finally come > up with in these next few hours WILL be shipped as 2.2-RELEASE on > CDROM. As it says in the release notes, 2.2.1R is a full replacement > for 2.2.0R and once all this dust settles then everyone should just > pretend that the earlier release never happened. :-) Ummm, I'm a little slow on the up-take this morning. Does that mean that the up-coming (aka 2.2.1) release will be on the CDROM; or the older, now missing (aka 2.2.0) release will be on the CDROM? If the 2.2.1-RELEASE is on the CDROM, is there time remaining to test the aha2940 corrections? - Thanks - - Dave Rivers -
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