From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 7 23:13:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 23:13:32 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E02137B400; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB87DTs48213; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:13:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA10039; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:13:29 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200012080713.AAA10039@harmony.village.org> To: chad@DCFinc.com Subject: Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission? Cc: mjacob@feral.com, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, ken@kdm.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Dec 2000 00:07:49 MST." <200012080707.AAA12102@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <200012080707.AAA12102@freeway.dcfinc.com> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 00:13:29 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: imp@harmony.village.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200012080707.AAA12102@freeway.dcfinc.com> "Chad R. Larson" writes: : Has the core group ever weighed in on this? Does the BSDi merger : change any of the FreeBSD focus with regard to other hardware : architectures? Core, per se, hasn't. There's a very strong history in this project that if a port is supported, breaking it is unacceptible. FreeBSD has moved beyond intel only, and we need to deal with that, even if there are things we can get away with on i386 and can't on other platforms. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message