From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 05:23:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43DF16A400 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 05:23:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F52443D49 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 05:23:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-66-140-61-232.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [66.140.61.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F0A114313 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 00:19:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 00:23:56 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <5ED4DADAA001B7EBB49961A7@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: RE: Problem with Broadcomm NIC - not recognized X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 05:23:45 -0000 --On May 4, 2006 9:33:01 PM -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt 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/