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Date:      Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:01:53 -0800
From:      Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux kernel compatability
Message-ID:  <4D236EA1.8000101@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <201101041144.26815.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101031017110.1450@desktop>	<alpine.BSF.2.00.1101031859290.1450@desktop>	<20110104082252.45bb5e7f@kan.dnsalias.net> <201101041144.26815.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On 1/4/2011 8:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> Actually, there are three different companies funding the IB port because
> there are in fact multiple users of IB on FreeBSD.  It seems silly to have
> three+ different versions of the IB stack maintained separately rather than
> pooling developer resources across multiple FreeBSD consumers to amortize the
> future maintenance costs.
>

Hear, Hear!

To a certain degree these three companies are competitors, but in the 
case of having a working IB stack, it benefits us all to have a common one.




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