Re: Intel + Thunderbolt Driver

2022-01-19 Thread Gerard E. Seibert
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:52:03 -0800, John-Mark Gurney stated: >Gerard E. Seibert wrote this message on Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 14:39 >-0500: >> I was just wondering if anyone had heard or knows when FreeBSD will >> be able to support Intel's "Thunderbolt" technology? The lack of a >> driver that work

Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14

2022-01-19 Thread Rick Macklem
I have downloaded the final version of the opensolaris smbfs and it looks much more reasonable to port to FreeBSD. I will be starting to work on this (and maybe Mark Saad will be able to help). I have no idea when I'll have code that can be tested by others. rick ___

Re: Intel + Thunderbolt Driver

2022-01-19 Thread grarpamp
On 1/19/22, Gerard E. Seibert wrote: > FreeBSD's inability to support this technology will come back > to bite them in the ass. Even if writing drivers is not their thing, users can actually do a lot to help relieve such situations. Have people considered buying some snake traps or at least some

Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14

2022-01-19 Thread Rick Macklem
Yuri wrote: > Rick Macklem wrote: > > I have downloaded the final version of the opensolaris > > smbfs and it looks much more reasonable to port to > > FreeBSD. > > What do you mean by "final version of the opensolaris smbfs", the one > from 2010? Please note that illumos (actively maintained for