Hi, John. Thanks for your update and I'll keep your experience in mind.
As stated in previous messages, I'll open new threads in the
appropriate lists about any specific driver issues (with details) that
I am concerned about. This thread was intended to deal with the
overall policy issue for dropping 6.2 in just barely more than a year..
On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:23 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 01:20:56 pm Jo Rhett wrote:
Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from
6.2 to 6.3. But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with
things
that are working fine and stable in 6.2, this is a pretty hard case
to
make.
This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and
money for any business to handle this ugprade. It totally understand
obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out. But 6.2 is barely a year old...
FWIW, at Y! 6.3 is more stable than 6.2 (I had a list of about 10
patches for
known deadlocks and kernel panics that were errata candidates for
6.2 that
never made it into RELENG_6_2 but all of them are in 6.3). We also
have many
machines with bge(4) and from our perspective 6.3 has less issues
with bge0
devices than 6.2.
Given the real world experience I have, your claims of instability w/
o even
testing 6.3 border on silly. Also, when it comes to bge(4), you
need to be
_very_ specific about what chipsets you are using and comparing
those with
the chipsets in the bug reports you read. The bge(4) driver in
particular
covers a vast range of different hardware variations and is a bit of a
hodge-podge itself. If there is a problem with a 5705 card then it
may be
specific to just 5705 parts and not affect 575x, etc. parts.
Again, with 3ware, there are two different drivers (twe(4) vs
twa(4)) and
again, you need to be more specific with which driver you are using
and which
model controllers you have.
--
John Baldwin
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
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