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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:19:29 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Integration of Net/OpenBSD code (was Re: your mail)
Message-ID:  <v04210102b5c765ff9f84@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200008200303.NAA06295@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
References:  <200008200303.NAA06295@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>

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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.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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