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Taavi Talvik writes:
: On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote:
:
: > If your company's infrastrucutre changes are made in a way that if
: > the project adopted them it would help binary support, I'm sure that would
: > be accepted.
: >
: > ie. if we just made function foo() more generic and then you could
: > simply provide a KLD, that would make everyones life easier.
:
: Still, I personally believe, that "core" or general "freebsd community"
: should explicitly state, that support for binary drivers and support for
: easier inclusion of binary driver or just third party driver is eagerly
: encouraged. And as much as possible, easy inclusion of binary drivers
: sould be kept in mind whether makeing changes to /usr/src/Makefile or
: kernel interfaces or even discussions on the freebsd lists.
Core has stated in the past a strong desire for developers not to
break kernel interfaces within minor releases.
: Why we do not take similiar position on binary drivers - they just
: work, and freebsd community just encourages this?
That certainly is the goal. Sometimes we achieve the goal, other
times we fall short.
Warner
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