Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:36:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: babkin@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: FYI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110191032280.74952-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200110190319.f9J3Jfo06174@mass.dis.org>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > Well, honestly, FreeBSD makes the life of the developers of third-party > > binary-only drivers fairly difficult. > > It does? On the whole, actually, I'd say we do a pretty good job of > making it easy. > > > The reason is that there > > are a lot of API changes happening between the releases (take > > Julian Elisher's recent problem for example). > > It's a poor example. Drivers don't involve themselves in the sysinit > chain. welllllll it gets involved.. if you redefine the SYSINIT values, old drivers's aren't 'notified' (should be a module but the supplier didn't make one..) > > > So the driver writers > > are forced to at least recompile their drivers for each release. > > This isn't typically the case, actually. 4.x has in fact been very > good in this regard. with the above exception, I agree. though in userland, the library changes have caused us some grief. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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