From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 17 22: 7:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FBC7150B4 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 22:06:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10NVwa-000KU4-00; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:06:12 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Serve working hardware first (was Define MAXMEM in GENERIC) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:47:10 +0900." <36EFEA9E.ED8DFF5@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:06:12 +0200 Message-ID: <78743.921737172@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:47:10 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Hear! Hear! It's not the people with *working* hardware that should > get the short end! Hi Daniel, That's certainly a reasonable statement. I agree with you, for whatever that's worth. However, my impression has always been that the priority in GENERIC is to make sure as many people as possible can boot FreeBSD. The only case I can think of right now that supports this impression is the disabled probe for 32 bit multi-sector transfers in the IDE driver. Do we have a fixed goal with GENERIC, or have things fuzzied out over the years? Ciao, Sheldon. [Reply Subjects should not include the (was Define MAXMEM in GENERIC) ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message