Subject: Re: aix7xxx problems with negotiating "Ultra" speeds....
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 12/09/1998 23:43:57
woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> Personally I think that fearing the FreeBSD CAM implementation just
> because it doesn't support 100% of the hardware NetBSD currently
> supports is silly. Even if some hardware is (possibly only temporarily)
> "lost" because of the switch, I suspect the gain is still far more
> advantageous.
I belive that it's been demonstrated that the people who work on
NetBSD are competent to implement a slow changeover to a new framework
if that's appropriate.
UVM
wscons
compiler and toolchain bits
hell, the existing SCSI code!!!
I would therefore claim that concerns about "support issues while
migrating" can be coped with, if the migration is, in fact, desirable.
cgd
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Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html
Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.