Subject: Re: shrinking the supported devices list?
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/19/1999 01:38:24
Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>  wrote:
 > Obviously, this has not been the case for several drivers (mostly for
 > aging devices on sun4 systems), as evidenced by bugs that I found
 > in the last few days in the `si' and `ie' drivers which have made
 > those devices non-functional in -current for nearly a year.
 > 
 > This raises the question whether we can sanely continue to claim to
 > have support for this hardware in the upcoming 1.4 release. Unless
 > it can be demonstrated that a device on the `supported list' can
 > be succesfully driven by a -current/1.4-branch kernel, the answer
 > is going to be "no", I guess...

I'm happy to plug whatever hardware I can into whatever devices are
compatible with said hardware into the buildlab machines...

assuming I can find time to actually approach the build-lab with
anything more than passing guilt.