Re: Rules for adding new network drivers?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Kaspar Brand wrote:
> Are there any particular rules when deciding if a new network driver
> should be added to NetBSD? Specifically, I'm wondering about the
> et driver (Agere ET1310/ET1301) originally written by Sepherosa Ziehau
> for DragonFly [1] and ported to OpenBSD by Jonathan Gray [2].
>
> Would this driver be considered for inclusion even when its current
> vendor (LSI) now dubs it as a "legacy product"? [3]

Being obsolete never stopped NetBSD supporting it. Some would say it was 
quite the opposite!

--
Stephen