From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:51:16 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <2c61ec3892b531cee032fc8199128720@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <<4B0E14CF.3010406@conducive.org>> References: <<4B0E14CF.3010406@conducive.org>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Scanners Topicbox-Message-UUID: a100efa4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > But it IS a bit frustrating to see drivers available in one F/OSS OS (or > variant) and not another, more especially as they are nearly always written in > reasonably portable 'C' code these many years. that's easier said than done. Blocks are not the same as sk_bufs. for that matter, they're not the same as MsgBufs or RingBufs. > Reality is that the rate of introduction/change of hardware/silicon is too fast > for any small - or even 'medium sized' team (FreeBSD for example) to keep up > with on their own... and that gap is widening. that's only a problem if one's goal is to support all possible hardware. - erik