From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 4 17:24:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458461535C; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id RAA12764; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:21:58 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA05205; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:21:57 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA29611; Sat, 4 Dec 99 17:21:54 PST Message-Id: <3849BE44.EF52448C@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 18:22:12 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dennis , Mike Smith , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) References: <41264.944342473@zippy.cdrom.com> <199912042149.NAA57545@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :> There was a time that when someone reported a problem there was interest in > :> finding out what it might be. > : > :There is ALWAYS interest in finding out what a problem is when it's > :reported in such a way that the effort is worth the potential reward. > :Having someone walk up and say, in effect, "Dudes, your system is > :broken. Fix it!" is a content-free statement and does not qualify as > > This is complete bullshit. Read through the thread from day 1... > starting around Nov 20th. Matt, this thread is a LOT older than Nov 20th, it runs for YEARS. Dennis said the same things about 2.2 vs. 2.1.5 at the very least. A few years later when he finally got his driver sorted out for 2.2, it became the best thing since sliced bread and now 3.x is nothing but crap. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message