From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 13: 4: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A940F37B403; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9HK3ga41715; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:03:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: dhass@imagestream.com, tedm@toybox.placo.com, bicknell@ufp.org, kc5vdj@yahoo.com, taylorm@bytecraft.au.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:50:20 PDT." <20011017125020N.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:03:42 +0200 Message-ID: <41713.1003349022@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011017125020N.jkh@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard writes: >I fully support your idea of offering a "bounty" to anyone writing >drivers for your cards and think you're being more than generous in >offering it. I wish more vendors would do that and I'm sorry that >this discussion has gotten as polarized as it has. If people want to >change the support situation for T1 cards, they need to get off their >duffs and write the code Hey, I got two drivers under my belt already, although only E1, but isn't that enough for a beginning ? :-) I fully agree with Jordan btw, that is a very clear explanation of the situation. And as I said, we do have precedence and procedures for shipping binary drivers with FreeBSD. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message