On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 02:33:51PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > One other suggestion, while I'm at it. > > > > The "dgb" driver has been marked "alpha quality" for a LONG time. > > > > I've had a fax server running on a PC/Xe 8 port card (64k shared RAM) > > for well over a year on one of these cards - and have NEVER had a single > > problem with it. That server gets a LOT of extremely heavy use, and > > if there were driver problems I would have found them by now. > > > > I'd suggest that someone drop the "alpha" byline on that one - its > > definitely stable :-) > > I plan on doing some work on it and the dgm driver. They're almost > the same and should be merged. They both violate style(9) in almost > every way too :-[ > > I know of only one person with an Xem card (dgm driver), but he's > promised to send me the specs by snail mail. Once I get them, I'll > start the work. > > Let's leave the `alpha' there for a little longer :-)
What are you planning on doing with it? Other than DDB support I can't imagine what could be *added* to the driver; it is one of those "just works" things right now. -- -- Karl Denninger (k...@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
