On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > Well, honestly, FreeBSD makes the life of the developers of third-party > > binary-only drivers fairly difficult. > > It does? On the whole, actually, I'd say we do a pretty good job of > making it easy. > > > The reason is that there > > are a lot of API changes happening between the releases (take > > Julian Elisher's recent problem for example). > > It's a poor example. Drivers don't involve themselves in the sysinit > chain. welllllll it gets involved.. if you redefine the SYSINIT values, old drivers's aren't 'notified' (should be a module but the supplier didn't make one..) > > > So the driver writers > > are forced to at least recompile their drivers for each release. > > This isn't typically the case, actually. 4.x has in fact been very > good in this regard. with the above exception, I agree. though in userland, the library changes have caused us some grief. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
