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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:42:29 +0100
From:      Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Well, I finally bought a test laptop and decided to jump in... 
Message-ID:  <E0wrWab-0003Ik-00@byako.lovett.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:13:52 PDT." <13127.869764432@time.cdrom.com> 

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>
>Shall we get this stuff into 3.0?  It's light-years better than what
>we have now, and had it not been for the PAO kit I would not have had
>an easy time of installing this machine at all.  By not integrating
>the PAO stuff in all this time, we've denied laptop users the ability
>to install the 3.0 SNAPs and that's an unfortunate situation which
>should be fixed.

Yes yes yes yes yes :)

I'm willing to commit some time and effort to this -- my own laptop is
running 2.2.2-release + PAO patches, and there seems to be no way for
me to move to 3.0-current -- I really don't want to have to go and buy
a smallish uni-processor 'normal' PC in order to test uni-processor
3.0-current systems against their SMP big brothers.

Should I wish to run -current on my laptop, I'm faced with the rather
daunting prospect of applying/patching the current PAO every time my
-current kernel tree gets updated.. this would seem to be a major
waste of time and effort.

Given that there appears to be a reasonable level of PAO support in
2.2.2-release, even without the extra PAO stuff, surely it makes sense
to merge the PAO project into -current?

-aDe

-- 
Ade Lovett, Demon Internet Ltd.



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