| From: | Brooks Davis <brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:19:55 -0800 |
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:08:55PM -0800, ALeine wrote: > > I would hereby like to politely request your comments on backporting > GEOM to the 4.x branch. I personally would like to see GEOM backported > to the 4.x branch and I would appreciate it if all the developers > (especially Mr. Poul-Henning Kamp) who are familiar with the inner > workings of GEOM could comment on that idea, especially in terms of > giving me a rough overview of what would need to be done and pointing > me in the right direction so I could get started with backporting > GEOM myself. I should mention that I am an experienced programmer, but > my kernel programming experience is limited, I've only done some minor > work on a couple of kernel modules. > > I do understand that this would be quite an undertaking, so I would > also like to hear from others who would be willing to work on > backporting GEOM to the 4.x branch and having the port integrated > into DragonFly BSD. I'm sure it's technically possible, but I can state with absolute certainly that it would never be committed to FreeBSD's RELENG_4. I believe Matt has some ideas of his own on how he would like to see GEOM's functionality implemented in DragonFly. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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