From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 7 11:19: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD5137B71C for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f27JIgr01593; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:18:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103071918.f27JIgr01593@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_fxp status? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:43:19 CST." <200103071743.f27HhJr00796@guild.plethora.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 11:18:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010307114211.0241d9e0@mail.etinc.com>, Dennis writes: > >I really dont care to ask this on the list, but DG doesnt answer my private > >emails, so I have little choice. > > Yup. None at all. I mean, you're getting something for free, and the > people giving it away don't seem to be able to build their schedules around > your life. I can see how you'd have no choice but to bug everyone else, > too. Uh, folks, and particularly you, Peter. Far be it for me to be seen to be sticking up for Dennis (!), but he *does* have a point here, and his reticence is actually quite understandable. DG has not been maintaining the fxp driver as well as many people would like, and it's fair to say that it *is* slipping behind in support for new hardware coming out of intel. Dennis - to answer your question: no, there is no work in progress (to the best of my knowledge) on the fxp driver that's not already visible in the drivers in current/stable. DG is currently going through some things that make him even more of a challenge than usual to contact, and this isn't improving the situation. I don't have a lot of options to recommend right now, I'm sorry, other than the usual (find someone else willing to do the work, send them samples of troublesome adapters). Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message