Intel Support for FreeBSD

[Jim Thompson]

Barney,

I think everyone on-list understand you’re upset.  You’ve made that clear.

However, (and I’ll put my vendor hat on), the project does not exist solely for the benefit of the companies who choose to use it in their product(s).

Given same, your statement that “the commercial use of FreeBSD is the only reason that there is a project” is incorrect.  It is a reason, but not the only reason.

Jim

> On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Barney Cordoba via freebsd-net <freebsd-net at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:49 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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:
>>   
>> 
>> 
>> 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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