From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 22 6:35: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5591A14D3D for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 06:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA23558; Sat, 22 May 1999 14:34:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA70999; Sat, 22 May 1999 14:33:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199905221333.OAA70999@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Karl Denninger Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 1999 21:43:59 CDT." <19990521214359.B16648@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 14:33:51 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > One other suggestion, while I'm at it. > > The "dgb" driver has been marked "alpha quality" for a LONG time. > > I've had a fax server running on a PC/Xe 8 port card (64k shared RAM) > for well over a year on one of these cards - and have NEVER had a single > problem with it. That server gets a LOT of extremely heavy use, and > if there were driver problems I would have found them by now. > > I'd suggest that someone drop the "alpha" byline on that one - its > definitely stable :-) I plan on doing some work on it and the dgm driver. They're almost the same and should be merged. They both violate style(9) in almost every way too :-[ I know of only one person with an Xem card (dgm driver), but he's promised to send me the specs by snail mail. Once I get them, I'll start the work. Let's leave the `alpha' there for a little longer :-) > -- > -- > Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net > I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give > up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message