Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Dennis wrote:

> The "issue" that i first cited is that the core people in FreeBSD seemed
> disinterested in 3.x soon after its release. Development on 4.0 shouldnt
> even have begun until 3.x was stabilized. 3.0 wasnt ready for prime time
> when  it was released and the work needed to get it there hasnt been done
> due to the fascination with 4.0.
> 
> DB

It was never stated that 3.0 was ready for prime-time, and in fact, quite
the opposite was stated.  Development on 4.0 did start when 3.X was stable,
but that doesn't mean bugs which cause instability under very specific
conditions still weren't found.  MANY of the things done in 4.0 by Matt,
for instance, cannot be merged into RELENG_3 without making huge,
sweeping changes.  These changes wouldn't have been made in the "stable",
non-development branch.  They weren't.  They were made in the development
branch, HEAD, 4.0.

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