Subject: Re: Your use of NedBSD?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/17/2002 18:22:42
In article <20021217140848.GB16141@labs.gr>,
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:

Yes, while this is true, we are trying not to break the code and keep
it synced with all the API changes in the networking stack. This might
not be feasible in the future when the mbuf layer gets re-written. So
reviving the code and making it work under /current might require
significant changes.

>
>IIRC, this was done because nobody was willing to support it anymore.
>I'm sure that you can work and generate patches using the older
>version of the source that included the OSI stack though.  One of the
>great advantages of all BSDs is that you're free to copy any version
>of the source tree as a base and start work based on that.  You are
>not obliged to work with freebsd-current or netbsd-current.  I'm also
>almost 100% sure that given a relatively stable code base upon which
>OSI support can be worked on and relatively good support for it, the
>relevant parts could be revived in the FreeBSD tree too :-)
>