Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:10:56 +0100 From: Oliver Peter <lists@peter.de.com> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Oliver Peter <lists@peter.de.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content Message-ID: <20080904151056.GC32453@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> In-Reply-To: <2FFE8E59-5CF1-4D65-BD6C-4ED8DE8FB14D@airwired.net> References: <35445338-D597-4FE2-996F-DEC7BE986741@airwired.net> <20080903191454.GA15376@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <32833CD6-DE00-4FDB-A01A-B86B0A25B3E4@airwired.net> <20080904094218.GB32453@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <2FFE8E59-5CF1-4D65-BD6C-4ED8DE8FB14D@airwired.net>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:48:46AM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2008, at 3:42 AM, Oliver Peter wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:58:45PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > >> > >> On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:14 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> > >>> Your patches to add support for the i4965 and your Marvell 88E80xx > >>> must have been stripped by the mailing list software. Can you > >>> please > >>> re-send them. > >> > >> I have not written patches, thus I did not send any patches. > > > > | > > `--> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm > > > > Btw. my philosophy is if you would like to use your favourite open > > source > > operating system - which I guess is FreeBSD - on your new hardware, > > you > > should spend additional 15 minutes when you make the decision what > > hardware > > you are going to buy and check the specs with the "Hardware Notes" at > > http://www.freebsd.org/where.html. > > > > Complaining afterwards is easy but no one forces you to buy > > unsupported > > hardware. > > Point taken. A $500 Dell laptop, however, will be a popular machine > and sooner or later should be supported. Would be nice to have that, I agree with you. But popularity is not an argument: Those 'fat' ATI graphics cards are quite popular as well but as long as the manufactor does not hand out nicer documentation you wont have a nice kernel module to get hardware acceleration. -- Oliver PETER, email: oliver@peter.de.com, ICQ# 113969174 "If it feels good, you're doing something wrong." -- Coach McTavish
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