On 4/19/06, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Off list lobbying usually has a negative impact. The lobbying was for vendor inclusion and not necessarily for upstream acceptance.
> The biggest barrier at this point seems to be hardware availability. > People generally don't care unless they use or are going to get that hardware. > Also the big benchmark data, although interesting, is usually only > interesting to vendors. The hardware is going to generally available in June. There are also lots of OEMs, OSVs and hardware vendors that have the system to test on today. The early rollout of hardware has been very large. > > You probably will have to suffer out of tree for a while until the hardware > becomes more available. When the hardware is more common, then the > implementation > details will be sorted out. Also after the 2+ years of getting TSO to work > right, maybe the developers are a little gun shy at this point. Some OSVs (at least one very large one) is supporting it. John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
