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Given the limited resources available, what are you expecting to occur? Why would they dedicate staff to back porting drivers that may literally never be used?
by tw04 12y ago
Given the limited resources available, what are you expecting to occur? Why would they dedicate staff to back porting drivers that may literally never be used? If the person implementing the driver doesn't personally have a need to run it in an older version of the OS, they aren't going waste precious time back porting it just for the sake of back porting it.
- emaste 12y agoIn the case of drivers, a lot depends on the specific hardware. Some drivers are written by employees of the hardware manufacturer, some are written by employees of companies using FreeBSD, and some are written by interested volunteers. Hardware vendors have an interest in supporting whichever FreeBSD versions are of interest to their customers, and often merge to all supported branches.