Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:14:31 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, Gilles Chehade <veins@evilkittens.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, miros-discuss@mirbsd.org Subject: Re: The future of NetBSD Message-ID: <20060831201338.F82634@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060831230642.GH25515@ribeyre.gentiane.org> References: <c6d37fe0608310259k12fe629eve59e59042fcfdb4c@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSM.4.64L.0608311312190.8977@odem.66h.42h.de> <950621ad0608310654h78ae0023g346abd108815ae72@mail.gmail.com> <20060831110112.J82634@hub.org> <f34ca13c0608310843p4e28b57eoec2f60737c034ddb@mail.gmail.com> <20060831184715.B82634@hub.org> <44F7619B.8010609@evilkittens.org> <20060831192632.T82634@hub.org> <20060831225719.GG25515@ribeyre.gentiane.org> <20060831200228.B82634@hub.org> <20060831230642.GH25515@ribeyre.gentiane.org>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote: >> If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community, >> then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports >> come in about it ... > > That's too many ifs to be realworld-compatible. > > And actually the only vendors I can think of which are working with the > community actually provide documentation, if only because it is simpler > for them to spend time on documentation than on code for N different > systems. ICP Vortex (aka Adaptec) were providing drivers on their web site for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x that are included in both source trees ... it was a binary driver, as far as I'm aware, but source code ... and Adaptec doesn't provide documentation ...
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