From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 6 16:34:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41D637B4CF for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:34:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA70dBF29045; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:39:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011070039.eA70dBF29045@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: dima@rdy.com Cc: Carl Makin , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Old stallion drivers in -stable. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:27:58 PST." <200011070027.eA70RwE12375@sivka.rdy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:39:11 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith writes: > > > > I understand that Dima Ruban (copied) was working on this, but I haven't > > heard anything from him recently. > > I am, but I got somewhat distracted. But I don't have a _set_ of these cards. > All I've got is EC64 PCI, which wasn't initially supported by this driver. > So even when I fix the driver to work with a new bus, I can't guarantee that > it's gonna work of each and every card it was suposed to support. > > > If Dima isn't having any success, and someone was willing to send me a > > representative set of these cards, I would be happy to do the work > > (and I think that BSDi would be happy to sponsor it). Ok. In this case, my offer still stands. If someone wants to get me a set of these cards, I will port and test the driver as soon as I can fit it into my schedule (should be fairly quickly). Then I'll drop it on Dima to maintain. That sounds fair, right? 8) 8) 8) -- ... 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-stable" in the body of the message