From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 17:25:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD45F37B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA15880; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:25:30 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:25:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Sergey Babkin Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDI environment now released. In-Reply-To: <3A8B2F6B.A514C0CE@bellatlantic.net> 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 Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger > > number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors > > within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really > > there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is > > being done) makes less sense than it used to. > > I'm afraid, it is. How many versions of FreeBSD with incompatible > driver interfaces are out there ? Not too many. Major release rules have been adhered somewhat. > How many versions of Linux with > the same sort of incompatibilities ? Linux is far worse - the release of the moment.... But the primary motivation for a UDI like i/f (which, btw, has a lot *not* going for it) in terms of multiplatform support is not the issue it once was. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message