From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Mar 11 13: 8:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF911521A for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA04395; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:08:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Scott Mitchell Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatibility list In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:49:36 GMT." <19990311154936.Q23921@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:08:49 -0800 Message-ID: <4393.921186529@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Jordan, you really are the *man* -- here I was expecting to get my ass > chewed off by half of -core, but no, I roll in to work and find out I've > been crowned (condemned?) to be the PC-card guy. Darn that timezone thing > -- never had a chance to defend myself :-) Always pick your battles with those who can't defend themselves. I think it was Clauswitz who said that, or maybe Woody Allen. :) > committed, and start my new job. The most I'll be able to accomplish in > the interim is getting folks organised, gathering documentation and > figuring out exactly what we're hoping to get done. I think that will be more than enough in the short term. > I've come to believe that "if you want something doing, do it yourself" is > a truism, so rather than be one of the whiners, here I am. Plus, it looks > good on my resume, you know :) I like this guy. :) > Wow, my own hat and commit privs too! One thing I was wondering though, > does this mean I should be running -current? The laptop actually gets used > for the (paid) work as well, so I'd like to it be somewhat stable most of > the time. I guess -current is where the dynamic device support will be > happening though, huh? -current would definitely be best, though you don't necessarily have to run it on the laptop, just somewhere that you can build test kernels for it. Still, I run -current on my own production machine (zippy) and it hasn't hurt me yet. You just need to read the -current mailing list and stay away from updating during those periods where at least several people are yelling "Fire!" > To everyone else who cc'd stuff to me -- sorry I don't have time this week > to reply to everyone personally. I'll make a general posting early next > week once I've had a few days to think about exactly where I see things > going, and we can take it from there. Sounds great. > Looking forward to working with y'all, Likewise! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message