From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Aug 21 16:19:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C9237B619 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA241906; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:18:59 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200008200303.NAA06295@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> References: <200008200303.NAA06295@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:19:29 -0400 To: Darren Reed , jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:03 PM +1000 8/20/00, Darren Reed wrote: > I think the problem (now) is that the different in-kernel >architectural changes by the BSD groups have created, essentially, >code that is hard to just "copy". The time it is taking for cardbus >to arrive in FreeBSD, when it is already available in NetBSD, is a >good example of this. (This is/was Warner Losh's baby, or am I >confused ?) I'm *really* disappointed that FreeBSD doesn't (yet?) >support cardbus in 4.x (-current?) :-( For what it's worth, I think Jonathan Chen@rpi just about has an improved version of some of the cardbus changes for freebsd ready. I forget whether that was originally based on netbsd's code, but I get the impression he's put a fair amount of work into it to get it working. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message