Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 00:23:56 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized Message-ID: <5ED4DADAA001B7EBB49961A7@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEOFFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEOFFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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--On May 4, 2006 9:33:01 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > >>> >> If I understand what you're saying, you're saying that the driver only >> gets updated for the latest OS? That seems a bit absurd to me. >> Wouldn't the bge driver be the same for every OS version that it's >> available for? >> > > All parts of FreeBSD are constantly being worked on. It is more correct > to think of FreeBSD as a continuum, with the releases merely as defined > points on the continuum. > > A number of people, in fact, run FreeBSD in such a way that every > night a process on their system goes to the master CVS repository, > and fetches any changes and updates that have been made, then applies > them to their system. > If you're fetching src all with cvs on a RELENG version, are you getting the updates to drivers? (I would think that you are.) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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