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Subject: Re: Digiboard PCI Xem driver
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:00:43 +1000
> From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Digiboard PCI Xem driver
> To: Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr>
> Cc: stable@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20040519000043.GA79139@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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> On 2004-May-13 06:10:57 +0300, Lefteris Tsintjelis <lefty@ene.asda.gr> wrote:
> >Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> >> Unfortunately, no-one seems interested in officially back-porting it 
> >> to -stable - and I can't see it happening at all now.
> >
> >Back porting it, seems pretty simple and straight forward...
> 
> The 4.x branch is now very close to being dead and it would be difficult
> to justify the effort now.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Jeremy
> 

If you an get a driver done and tested, then getting it committed to 4.x
is not too hard. It just requires someone who has one to do the work.
I'd be happy to commit it..

4.x.... "I'm not dead yet"