Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:43:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: julian@ivision.co.uk (Julian) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hans@artcom.de, julian@ivision.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <199805191443.QAA02539@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <E0ybnH2-00027U-00@stingray.ivision.co.uk> from Julian at "May 19, 98 03:21:48 pm"
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In reply to Julian who wrote:
> >
> > Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that
> > should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing
> > is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable...
> > There has to be a line drawn somewhere....
>
> Err, it isn't worth arguing the point, but this _is_ a bug as far as I
> am concerned. I can't specify the CHS setup I need to use this drive,
> I get errors with this drive attatched. I cannot format the drive
> correctly, I cannot use the drive correctly. Why not? Because LBA
> is broken on 2.2. I'd call that a bug.
No its not broken, there simply is NO LBA support in -stable....
> I appreciate, and approve of FreeBSD's attitude to implementing things
> slowly, and more cautiously as compared to Linux, but sometimes
> you seem over cautious to me.
If you want bleeding edge there is always -current :)
And I repeat, there are no plans to incorporate DMA support into -stable.
> I now have a Hans Huebner's patch, and will be applying this sometime
> soon, so to an extent I am not fussed. I just don't entirely agree with
> where the line has been drawn in this case.
I havn't seen the patch, but if its a port of my first attempts in
-current it breaks dump severely. Besides there is no need to
use LBA mode to use the big drives, and this has been fixed in -current.
I'm sure alot of people has other things they'd like to see backported
to -stable, but thats the way life is. We simply doesn't have the
manpower to do all the work that involves, and we will not risk the
stability of -stable by doing any hasty hacks.
-stable is targetted as the stable branch of FreeBSD for "end users",
-current is the bleeding edge where new development is hashed
out by the developers.
Thats the way it is, and thats the way it has to stay..
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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