> 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

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