On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Gilles Chehade wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
I doubt that'll be productive -- NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have all
different goals...
Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one
example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one* device driver, for,
what, 50+ distributions of linux ... for us, they need to write one for
FreeBSD, one for NetBSD, one for OpenBSD, and *now* one for DragonflyBSD
... if we had *at least* a common API for that sort of stuff, it might be
asier to get support at the vendor level, no?
How would a common API provide more support from the vendor ? What does the
API have to do with releasing documentation ?
I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards
directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of
documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need
documentation for?
