From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Apr 23 20:57:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16280 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16275 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougGuy@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08996; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:57:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougGuy@dal.net) Message-ID: <35400D95.D9051B87@dal.net> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:57:09 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0420 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schwenk CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, smdavis@iquest.net Subject: Re: udma ultra33 promise References: <353FEDEF.6640@usa.net> <353FE865.6D3B8067@voicenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Schwenk wrote: > > Don't let us stop you. > > Steven M. Davis wrote: > > > There are files in the linux kernal upgrade 2.1.68 that has (according > > to Promise Inc.) > > working promise ultra33 code > > I think that that an effort should be > > made to insert that code and make it available for 2.2.6 users I think what Peter means to say is that FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, and although we get a lot of good ideas every day, they aren't likely to be acted on without code to go with them. :) Additionally, the -doc list deals with documentation about freebsd, most of us couldn't code a dma driver if we wanted to. You might get a better response by mailing to freebsd-hackers, but don't be surprised if the answer is "sounds great, where's the code?" Thanks for your interest, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message