From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 22 09:46:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18599 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18586 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:46:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA09503; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:46:33 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:46:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199708221646.KAA09503@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) In-Reply-To: <19970822093613.ES33724@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <25619.872204476@time.cdrom.com> <19970822093613.ES33724@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > But according to recent discusions, core has rejected the DPT driver as > > it stands... > > Which `core'? Your core memory? Dunno. The NetBSD core team? > Dunno. If the term `core', as you're using it, stands as an > abbreviation for ``The FreeBSD core team'', then i'm surprised to hear > that you're a member of it, apparently. Otherwise, how did you learn > this news? I believe i'm a member of this core team, and i frankly > can't remember any decision of the kind you're quoting above. Whoa now. Slow down, take a deep breath, and go read the archives. Simon *explicitly* stated that core (yeah, that's the one you belong to) rejected the DPT driver for a number of reasons, all valid, and all listed by Simon. They will be fixed, but until they are fixed it won't be integrated. Nate