[haiku-development] Re: FreeBSD network drivers

  • From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 10:36:43 +0200

On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:22:26AM +0200, Ithamar Adema wrote:

Hi,

Is there any other reason then time/effort that we're tracking FreeBSD 9.x
instead of 10.x for the network driver compatibility layer? There's some
network driver support in 10.x that isn't "back ported" to 9.x, and I would
prefer to simply update the BSD compatibility instead of starting to merge
patches from 10.x into our 9.x base...

Anyway, just wondering if someone tried that already and found some
blocking issues or if it is just a lack of time / motivation ;)

Probably the latter. The compatibility layer can only track one version
of FreeBSD at a time (as their API changes between versions), which
means that all drivers needs to be updated at the same time. This
usually introduces some regressions and needs some testing on as much
hardware as possible.

--
Adrien.

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