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   Lars Erdmann to All   
   Re: Whither FreePM?   
   26 Jan 11 08:02:55   
   
   Firefox/4.0b8pre SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre   
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   .os2.programmer.misc:1850   
   From: Lars Erdmann    
      
   Ilya Zakharevich wrote:   
   > On 2011-01-19, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard  wrote:   
   >>> I don't think anyone have done anything to that code since. It is   
   >>> available as all osFree code is, on http://osfree.sf.net   
   >>>   
   >> That's what I suspected: It's dead and barely even a skeleton outline.   
   >   
   >> That's unfortunate.  I was hoping that that would provide something useful.   
   >   
   > Why?!  PM was, I expect, of order of magnitude of hundred of man-years   
   > to implement; and it was still man-years from completion when it was   
   > frozen.  Why would anyone expect things to be implementable by a tiny   
   > team of volunteers I fail to grasp...   
      
   I wish these guys would step in and already start working on a USB 3.0 driver.   
   The specs are freely available from Intel and we have the USBEHCD.SYS   
   source code as a starting point (USB 3.0 is similar to USB 2.0 with some added   
   features) ...   
      
   Lars   
      
   --- Internet Rex 2.31   
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