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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Could the BSD 4.4 Lite be a new beginning? Date: 19 Feb 1994 18:22:23 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 43 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Feb19132223@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <HSU.94Feb14043905@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> <R60q1p-.dysonj@delphi.com> <MYCROFT.94Feb17180243@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <hq5JeSv.dysonj@delphi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: John Dyson's message of Fri, 18 Feb 94 20:21:59 -0500 Congrats, John! You've just won the first Rob Kolstad (Used Kernel Salesman) award! In article <hq5JeSv.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes: The new pmap code is *significantly* improved over the *old* pmap code which is essentially what NetBSD is using ( some uninspired tweaks.) That is fallacious. Had you looked, you'd find that many of the changes in `your' pmap module are identical to ones I did in `ours' (with the exception of the bit of assembler code). I actually compared the code out of curiosity. The ones that weren't are mostly irrelevant. (BTW, pmap is a *small* *small* part of the performance puzzle.) No joke. I wonder why you even brought it up. [...] and produced the *most* robust driver for ethernet cardS that I have ever heard of. It is great because it *really* works for so many card types. You sound like a used car salesman. I've seen plenty of such drivers equally as reliable, and even more so because they don't rely on a buggy chip. I also compared `his' NE[12]000 code and found most of it textually identical to the code I sent him (which was based on, but not the code from the original if_ne driver). Remember, FreeBSD is being used in *real* work and my A** is really on the line. IT WILL/DOES WORK!!!! And so is/does NetBSD. I've talked with people who use it for a wide variety of `real' work. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.