From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 5 20:37:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22441 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:37:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22377 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from celeris (56k-port4037.ime.net [209.90.195.47]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id XAA46690; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:37:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19990205233625.03d60b40@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:36:58 -0500 To: Wes Peters , Terry Lambert From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: USB drivers Cc: ckempf@enigami.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990205213254.D6050@softweyr.com> References: <199902060121.SAA22918@usr02.primenet.com> <19990204230058.A4902@softweyr.com> <199902060121.SAA22918@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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