Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 16:07:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: hans@artcom.de (Hans Huebner) Cc: julian@ivision.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <199805191407.QAA02408@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <m0yblhM-00023bC@mail.artcom.de> from Hans Huebner at "May 19, 98 02:40:52 pm"
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In reply to Hans Huebner who wrote:
>
> >What am I going to need to do in order to get to use the drive? I
> >really would rather use it on a -STABLE system even if I then apply
> >a patch to that (potentially rendering it less stable)
>
> I'm beginning to get sick of this. I did port the the LBA code from
> -current to -stable, it works for me since weeks, and it works for
> several other people. I see no reason to not put that into -stable,
> and I'd really like to see that. 2.2.6-RELEASE is what people new
> to FreeBSD are installing, and it should support current hardware, if
> feasible. Supporting large IDE drives is feasible, so why not commit
> it?
Erhm, this is not in the 2.2-stable charter folks, the patches that
should go into 2.2-stable should only be bugfixes etc, the next thing
is that somebody wants the SMP code into 2.2-stable...
There has to be a line drawn somewhere....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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