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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: brandon@glacier.cold.org, BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com,
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Subject: Re: AHA 2940UW? Linux works..
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>You're right, of course. However, it would be nice if FreeBSD were  able to
>adapt to some common problems it doesn't handle yet -- such as the bug in
>some RZ1000 chips. (I've been lucky so far, in that most of the
>motherboards I've worked with have let me disable the part of the chip that
>poses the problem. But FreeBSD really should handle this one.)

Hasn't FreeBSD always handled it without doing anything special?

Bruce