Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:18:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm back. Message-ID: <199806262118.OAA08961@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:34:02 -1000." <199806262033.KAA09191@oldyeller.comtest.com>
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> On 26 Jun 98 at 10:28, Mike Smith wrote: > > > If this card has an on-board BIOS, I would be more than happy to help > > you implement a VM86-based BIOS-disk driver on -current. We have > > everything in place to make this pretty easy. > > > DEVFS should not be used in 2.2, and SLICE isn't there at all. For a > > 3.0-based PicoBSD, it's ideal. > > 3.0-current sound good, but is it stable enough as compared to 2.2.6R ? > I plan to run PicoBSD embedded into a commercial test equipment. That's something that only you can assure yourself of; you want to qualify it like any other software product. We were selling (expensive) commercial gear based on early 2.2-current snapshots nearly 18 months ago - most of these systems are still in operation today, despite the "highly alpha" nature of much of the code in them they work over the domain of interest and that's what counts. If you desperately need 3.0 features, then you need to look at qualifying one of the 3.0 snaps, or building your own. If not, then you can certainly increase your comfort factor by staying with the mugh more proven 2.2 family. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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