From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 14:16:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A9637B479; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03915; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:15:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08868; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:15:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14872.20766.675326.503604@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:15:58 -0700 (MST) To: Mike Smith Cc: Brandon Fosdick , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-Reply-To: <200011192156.eAJLu5F09713@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <3A18304B.689C2CFE@glue.umd.edu> <200011192156.eAJLu5F09713@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system on a > > machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of course, > > that artifact has some useful feature(s) or functionality. If it does, I'm > > all ears. > > What "you consider" doesn't have much bearing on the situation. As for > useful functionality, this has been done to death. It should be enough > for you to accept that the platform requires it Except that it doesn't, as 'dangerously dedicated' mode shows. >, and that a goodly slice > of platform-compliant firmware and software will fail in undesirable ways > if it's not present. All of which has been explained in excruciating > detail before. Except that the software hasn't always required it previously, and it previously did not fail. Some would call this 'regression', but I suppose others will call it 'progress'. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message