*BSD News Article 28537


Return to BSD News archive

Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman
From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Stable *BSD for Intel
Date: 16 Mar 1994 18:33:20 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <2m7jdg$bua@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU>
References: <2l81of$rmp@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CMGMoA.F03@apollo.hp.com> <2lqd2a$12e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Mar15.205532.19577@pegasus.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu

In article <1994Mar15.205532.19577@pegasus.com>,
Richard Foulk <richard@pegasus.com> wrote:

>Just curious (not trolling for flames here, really); if xBSD is having
>trouble with its veablefeltzer driver and yBSD has a functioning one,
>then do the dev-gods crib from the yBSD implementation or scratch build?

That depends very much on a few factors:

1) The original source of the driver.

2) Whether the fixes by the y group meet the swtylistic and
architectural requirements of the x group.

3) Whether there is someone in the x group who wants to do the work.

4) Whether there is someone in the x group who is capable of testing
the driver.

>How much coordination is there between x and y?

Very little.

-GAWollman

-- 
Garrett A. Wollman   | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... 
wollman@lcs.mit.edu  | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance.
formerly known as    | It is a bond more powerful than absence.  We like people
wollman@emba.uvm.edu | who like Shashish.  - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant