Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:36:58 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <4.1.19990205233625.03d60b40@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <19990205213254.D6050@softweyr.com> References: <199902060121.SAA22918@usr02.primenet.com> <19990204230058.A4902@softweyr.com> <199902060121.SAA22918@usr02.primenet.com>
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At 11:32 PM 2/5/99 , Wes Peters wrote: >On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 01:21:33AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Wanna bet? Motorola had/has it running on their StarMax series. They >> > have a full-time engineer support Linux on their embedded and server >> > PowerPC CPU boards now, too. <Sigh> Too bad we don't engender this >> > kind of support. >> >> Maybe if FreeBSD had something Linux didn't that Motorola really, >> really wanted. >> >> Like maybe hard RT with first-deadline-first scheduling. > >Motorola didn't want Linux, Northern Telecom did. The reason it's >getting full-time attention is because NT was pretty vocal, and >because they had one brilliant engineer who had already done half >the work on his own time because that's what he wanted to do. If >we'd managed to convince him to port FreeBSD to the PowerPC, NT >would have probably ended up with that instead. This case is so >close to what happened with Sun last year it almost sickens me. > >Three guesses who that engineer is. ;^) I'm not going to guess who the engineer is. BUt I'd be interested to know what happened with Sun last year. Maybe I know and I just think I'm living in a hole. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us PGP ID: 409A1F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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