[SPARCbook] Which BSD, and will anyone ever do the pcmcia bridge?

[Thomas Roehr]

Koyote wrote:

>
>Right, and the kernel is much slower. that's why I'm ignoring
>linux. which part was I wrong about?
>  
>
>>
>>Koyote wrote:
>>
>>>SO, I'm torn between open and netbsd (I'm ignoring linux all together
>>>since it doesn't seem to have pcmcia bridge support and it's generally
>>>worse to run form a comfort standpoint than Sol 2.6)
>>>
Your comments on the lack of the pcmcia bridge chip support, and a 
comfort standpoint from Solaris.

A casual review of the kernel code shows the same level of support for 
the pcmcia bridge between Linux and the BSD's.

I find the 2.4 kernels that I run to be much snappier then Solaris 2.6, 
and it does not have heat issues. I have had up times of over 100 days 
with linux (and then I rebooted for a different issue). Once I unpack 
from my move, I will build a 2.5 kernel on a 3GX, and report the results.

As for Linux vs BSD speed, be serious. If you want speed, get a 
different machine. You have already said you would use Solaris if you 
can get a 802.11 driver, so now stating speed is important is 
contradictory. The "My OS can context switch 10 usecs faster than yours" 
is a little lame.

I am sure you would happily use Linux if someone finished off the pcmcia 
issues.

Tom

>>>
>>>This is hard to discuss on the *bsd lists due to religion, but:
>>>
>>>I need functional support of the power subsystem (heat and suspend)
>>>
>>>The best graphics support I can get and some *hope* of eventual
>>>sound support and (would someone accept a
>>>BRIBE to finish this?) PCMCIA support so I can finally just pop a
>>>wavelan card in there.
>>>
>>>(yes, the wi driver for solaris 2.6 would be fine- even better, since
>>>I'd have full hardware support)
>>>
>>>so, any opinions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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