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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