[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 2020-02-21 15:18, Per Hedeland wrote:
> On 2020-02-21 15:12, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>
>>
>> On February 21, 2020 8:07:57 AM CST, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 15:29, Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2020-02-20 19:50, Ed Maste wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Modern laptops need an I2C touchpad driver, which isn't in the base
>>>>> system yet. It's now available in the ports collection and can be
>>>>> built standalone fairly easily; it works fine on my Lenovo X1
>>> Carbon
>>>>> 7th generation.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be very interested in that - can you provide a more specific
>>>> pointer than "in the ports collection"?:-)
>>>
>>> It's sysutils/iichid, added quite recently
>>> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/iichid/
>>>
>>> I hope it is added to the base system soon;
>>
>> Not to the base system, please.
> 
> Could you elaborate on that? I.e. do you not want the FreeBSD kernel
> to support modern hardware, or do you not want the FreeBSD kernel to
> support hardware that is only relevant for laptops/desktops, or...?
> 
> Having kernel modules in ports is problematic, I don't think anyone
> can disagree about that (but of course I may be wrong). There may be
> reasons to do it anyway, here it seems that it's due to code that
> needs more testing/experience and perhaps improvement before adding it
> to the base system / standard kernel - seems eminently reasonable to
> me.

You are right and I am wrong. I stand corrected.

Valeri

> 
> --Per
> 

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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