Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:25:29 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDI environment now released. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102141723270.22737-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <3A8B2F6B.A514C0CE@bellatlantic.net>
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > The problem is that at the time this was a huge issue there were a much larger > > number of machines and pieces of h/w and radically different OS's (or flavors > > within Unix even) to support. Such a wide set of differences is not really > > there any more, hence the cost of such support (and the style in which it is > > being done) makes less sense than it used to. > > I'm afraid, it is. How many versions of FreeBSD with incompatible > driver interfaces are out there ? Not too many. Major release rules have been adhered somewhat. > How many versions of Linux with > the same sort of incompatibilities ? Linux is far worse - the release of the moment.... But the primary motivation for a UDI like i/f (which, btw, has a lot *not* going for it) in terms of multiplatform support is not the issue it once was. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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