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Date:      Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:48:12 -0500
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_fxp - the real point 
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010308144541.0281a980@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103081720.f28HK1201269@guild.plethora.net>
References:  <Your message of "Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:15:09 EST." <5.0.0.25.0.20010308120015.01ee2eb0@mail.etinc.com>

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At 12:20 PM 03/08/2001, Peter Seebach wrote:
>In message <5.0.0.25.0.20010308120015.01ee2eb0@mail.etinc.com>, Dennis writes:
> >PS: Whatever happened to all of the "support" that BSDI was going to 
> provide?
>
>I have no doubt that the BSDi sales office would be happy to sell you a
>contract.  For that matter, I believe they are quite happy to do funded
>development.  Want the fxp driver fixed in FreeBSD?  Contact your local sales
>critter, describe what you want done, get an estimate, and if you like the
>price, pay it.  That's how other people with "thousands of customers" get
>key hardware support that's a bigger priority for them than it is for other
>people, and it's not hard.


No. Keeping supported drivers up to date is part of the business of 
distributing an OS. Thats what "supported" implies. The driver is out of 
date. Noone is looking for a feature here. We just want it to work.


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