> 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
