Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:23:56 +0000 From: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, Harpalus a Como <harpalus.como@gmail.com>, "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, miros-discuss@mirbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <20060831222356.GE25515@ribeyre.gentiane.org> In-Reply-To: <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> References: <20060830232723.GU10101@multics.mit.edu> <98f5a8830608301731s2b0663e3g94b0bd32f8a06a78@mail.gmail.com> <c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com> <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org>
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> Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one > example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for, > what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for > FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD > ... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of stuff, it might be > asier to get support at the vendor level, no? Sure, support as a .o file, ready to link against a unique API. Just what Atheros delivers already. That's not something all BSD projects are willing to accept. Miod
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