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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210041242410.17529-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
> lian Elischer writes:
> >No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the
> >responsibility to make older subsystems work.
> 
> I'm _so_ glad to hear _you_ say that:
> 
> When will you have made KSE work on sparc64 and ia64 ?

What does KSE break, which used to work on these platforms?

It's not like CAM (to pick an older example that has less emotion
bound up in it), where every SCSI driver that hadn't already been
CAM-ified at the time of the import, broke.  When KSE doesn't work,
you lose only new features, not old ones, right?

Isn't complaining about this on sparc64/ia64/alpha kind of like
complaining about someone adding 4M page support to i386, but not
adding the same thing to other platforms?


-- Terry

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