While I understand that's generally the case, it's how Intel supports older releases. The code in -current does support building within older releases (at least 7.X and 8.X), except for the flaws I pointed out.
Jack Vogel submitted r217129, r217131, and r217132 to fix this PR, but didn't mark it closed. -Andrew On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > The following reply was made to PR kern/150247; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> > To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, > abo...@averesystems.com > Cc: > Subject: Re: kern/150247: [patch] [ixgbe] Version in -current won't build on > 7.x systems > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:05:27 +0000 > > We don't support building drivers from -CURRENT within the environment for an > older release. I think the ixgbe driver would need to be backported to 7- > STABLE. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -------------------------------------------------- Andrew Boyer abo...@averesystems.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
