From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 1 11: 6:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8338B14C4B for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA91720; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:03:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:03:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Doug Cc: "Jan B. Koum" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hey kernel hackers, this is worth a read. In-Reply-To: <37A48683.C880E374@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > "Jan B. Koum" wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:58:09PM -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html > > > >From the article: > > > > "Linux 2.4 also includes a completely rewritten networking layer." > > > > Great. After a few years from now when they get all the bugs out, they > > will be right back to the quality of early 4.4BSD quality ;) > > > > However, the SMP stuff they are working on is something we need IMHO. > > Agreed on both counts. I also like the idea of shorter turnover time > between major branches. We've already got a pretty considerable amount of > stuff that can't be ported back to -Stable without major headaches. It's > not always easy to know exactly where to draw the line, but I think that > the move from 3->4 should probably take less time than the move from 2->3 > did. Aye, and it shall. The 3.X branch should be the -STABLE branch for only about a bit more than a year total, IIRC :) But 4.0 should also include things that aren't even here yet, like pccard rewrites and the redone VFS, maybe a rewrite of ipfw if we can agree on that, the IPv6 stacks being merged in, PAO changes being accepted into the main branch (at least some of them), finer-grained SMP (probably per-subsystem)... The turnaround time will be less, but we'll still have a LOT of great new things :) > > Doug > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message