Subject: Re: FreeBSD Bus DMA
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/11/1998 20:01:02
Perry E. Metzger said:
>
> "John S. Dyson" writes:
> > I am only answering the comment that seems to have been raised
> > that FreeBSD people are clueless.
>
> No one said that.
>
> My own specific comment was that you have never ported FreeBSD to
> another hardware architecture, so you have no experience knowing if
> FreeBSD will port to another hardware architecture.
>
> I'm sure that the FreeBSD folks are plenty clueful. I am also dead
> certain, however, that you haven't tested your work for portability
> the way we have -- the only way that counts...
>
Our goals for portability are limited due to quality reasons. I
really don't care if an OS runs on a VAX, if I have an Alpha and
X86. Especially I don't care if the alternative is to compromise
the behavior of my tool, for a problem that I don't have.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.