Intel Support for FreeBSD

[John-Mark Gurney]

Barney Cordoba wrote this message on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 14:58 -0700:
> This kind of stupidity really irritates me. The commercial use of FreeBSD is the only reason that there is a project, and anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that companies with products based on freebsd can't just upgrade their tree every time some geek gets around to writing a patch. Maybe its the reason that linux sucks but everyone uses it? 10 years later, some old brain dead mentality.

Clearly your gripe is w/ Intel, not the FreeBSD community..  Intel
changed how they supported their driver..  We cannot change what Intel
does...

Please go complain to your vendor, and as you're a commercial user of
their hardware, they should listen to you...

> On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:49 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
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> Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net wrote this message on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:24 -0700:
> > Ok. It was a lot more convenient when it was a standalone module/tarball so you didn't have to surgically extract it from the tree and spend a week trying to get it to compile with whatever version you happened to be running. So if you're running 9.1 or 9.2 you could still use it seamlessly. 
> > 
> > Negative Progress is inevitable. 
> 
> The problem is that you are using an old version of FreeBSD that only
> provides security update...  The correct solution is to update your
> machines...
> 
> I'd much rather have Intel support it in tree, meaning that supported
> versions of FreeBSD have an up to date driver, than to cater to your
> wants of using older releases of FreeBSD...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:57 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
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> > 
> > On 8/12/2014 9:16 PM, Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net wrote:
> > 
> > > I notice that there hasn't been an update in the Intel Download Center since July. Is there no official support for 10?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > The latest code is committed directly into the tree by Intel
> > 
> > eg
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-July/060947.html
> > and
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2014-June/059904.html
> > 
> > They have been MFC'd to RELENG_10 a few weeks ago

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