From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 8 11:32:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 993B837B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:32:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA75284; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:44:31 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010308144541.0281a980@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:48:12 -0500 To: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point In-Reply-To: <200103081720.f28HK1201269@guild.plethora.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:20 PM 03/08/2001, Peter Seebach wrote: >In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010308120015.01ee2eb0@mail.etinc.com>, Dennis writes: > >PS: Whatever happened to all of the "support" that BSDI was going to > provide? > >I have no doubt that the BSDi sales office would be happy to sell you a >contract. For that matter, I believe they are quite happy to do funded >development. Want the fxp driver fixed in FreeBSD? Contact your local sales >critter, describe what you want done, get an estimate, and if you like the >price, pay it. That's how other people with "thousands of customers" get >key hardware support that's a bigger priority for them than it is for other >people, and it's not hard. No. Keeping supported drivers up to date is part of the business of distributing an OS. Thats what "supported" implies. The driver is out of date. Noone is looking for a feature here. We just want it to work. >-s > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message