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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 18:03:02 -0700
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To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu>

Chuck Cranor wrote:
> Yes.   The NetBSD and OpenBSD ATM stuff should also work under FreeBSD.
> At least I had ported it to FreeBSD a few months ago and submitted it for
> inclusion in FreeBSD (but no one ever got back around to doing it so
> I guess there is no interest in it from the FreeBSD front, oh well).

There's interest, please don't get the impression that total apathy is
what's currently standing in the way there.  It's just time, or lack
thereof, which has us chasing only the issues of highest import right
now.  ATM, while definitely something for the future, is not quite such
a high priority need right now so it's not as far up on the TODO list
as, say, getting the 4.4 Lite2 merge finished, finishing devfs or going
to a new ISA configuration mechanism.  All of us in the core team are
actively seeking an effective cloning technology. :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project