Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:53:14 -0400 From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970507125314.006b90d0@www.3am-software.com>
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At 03:12 PM 5/6/97 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > >It *is* a (mostly?) volunteer effort, and it appears from here in >the cheap seats that Matt got irritated at something or another, and no >longer desires to keep de current, for whatever reason. The thing >I don't understand is why the cold shoulder given to the 211xxx >cards by Jordan and DG, among others. So what if the cpu utilization >is higher? These nics are cheap, and not sole source, IMHO a >real *good* thing. I don't get paid to maintain the de driver and it is a volunteer effort. It isn't that I'm irritated it's just that FreeBSD is not my primary development O/S (NetBSD is). I don't have the time/environment to track 3 different FreeBSD pools. As FreeBSD diverges from NetBSD and BSD/OS it makes tracking FreeBSD even more difficult. I just finished rewriting the de driver which allows it to support many more cards than it before (it now uses information in SEEPROM to decide on how to drive the card). It also supports 2 new chips. I sent a long flame a few ago to one of the NetBSD mailing lists and it (thankfully) got NetBSD to implement ifmedia support. The de driver requires ifmedia and not having it under FreeBSD is a big hurdle in getting the new de driver running under FreeBSD. Note that over the past 6 months I've had to move (work-wise) 4 times and I've switched jobs once. I just haven't much time to work on the de driver. That's my view on this mess. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message
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