From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 22 7:44:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (kdhome-2.pr.mcs.net [205.164.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5458714BF4 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 07:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.3/8.8.2) id JAA20454; Sat, 22 May 1999 09:42:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990522094253.A20449@Denninger.Net> Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 09:42:53 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: Brian Somers Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion... References: <19990521214359.B16648@Denninger.Net> <199905221333.OAA70999@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199905221333.OAA70999@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 02:33:51PM +0100 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers will be LARTed and the remains fed to my cat Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 02:33:51PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > 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 :-) What are you planning on doing with it? Other than DDB support I can't imagine what could be *added* to the driver; it is one of those "just works" things right now. -- -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message