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From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD camp reaction to OpenBSD?
Date: 3 Dec 1995 12:44:48 -0500
Organization: Never!
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In article <49lj23$kh3@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris) wrote:
>]
>] Maybe if we ignore it (OpenBSD) it will slip quietly into insignificance.
>
>i386 OpenBSD supports bounce buffers.  NetBSD should roll in
>the code.

I don't believe that's considered an acceptable solution; we have other ports
that require bounce buffering, and I am told that the OpenBSD code is one of
the patches we've seen before, none of which met the architecture-independence
requirement.

The last I checked the README on Theo's web site, it didn't list any differences
between OpenBSD/i386 and NetBSD/i386, and the OpenBSD source was still not
available.  If either of these conditions have changed, I'm sure the source
tree will be perused for anything of use to us.
-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                             tls@rek.tjls.com

   Where is the day that melted into one rich noise?          --Thomas Wolfe