Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:15:04 -0600 (CST) From: Joseph Davida <jd@davida.com> To: billf@chc-chimes.com, jd@davida.com, jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, support@opensound.com Subject: Re: Dynamically loadable drivers Message-ID: <200001102215.QAA83969@davida.com> In-Reply-To: <200001102152.NAA03174@george.lbl.gov>
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Thanks to all who responded. We have decided to dump FreeBSD and Linux in favor Solaris 8, which we obtained from Sun for a mere $29, which is far cheaper than bying the FreeBSD CD's from cdrom.com!! Drivers that work on Solaris 2.51 still run on Solaris 8!!! This is the great thing about the DDI/DKI standardized interface, which neither FreeBSD not Linux have any inclination to implement. To the FreeBSD kernel developers who keep changing the kernel api's: If you keep changing your tune, soon no one will be dancing! You need a very big dosage of humility and sensitivity to user's needs. The tone of YOUR responses so far have been less than professional. You should understand that this sort of thing travels a lot faster than you can prepare to formulate your next response. Regards, Joe >From jin@portnoy.lbl.gov Mon Jan 10 15:53:03 2000 >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:52:51 -0800 (PST) >From: Jin Guojun (FTG staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> >To: billf@chc-chimes.com, jd@davida.com >Subject: Re: Dynamically loadable drivers >Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG > >Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> wrote: > >} On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Joseph Davida wrote: >} > Looks like 4.0 (as of 01/05/2000) is >} [...] >} > I was told that the OSS driver still works >} > with the latest Linux kernel. Perhaps >} > it's time I switched to something that >} > does not leave users in such a lurch >} > with every release. >} >} Considering 4.0 hasn't released yet, I don't know what you are bitching >} about. Linux's track record for binary compatibility isn't exactly >} squeaky clean either. > >This is the urgly part of the Linux -- every release is not consistance >and not stable -- x.y.100 broke the EA driver, x.y.101 broke EB driver, >x.y.102 broke EC driver, etc. > >As we noticed that we do not have pre-release testing before 3.4-RELEASE, >and much more bugs in the 3.x releases. Hopefully, FreeBSD will not follow >Linux in this way. > > -Jin >. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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