19.1.3. Low priority tasks

The following tasks are purely cosmetic or represent such an investment of work that it is not likely that anyone will get them done anytime soon:

The first N items are from Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>

1. NetWare Server (protected mode ODI driver) loader and subservices to allow the use of ODI card drivers supplied with network cards. The same thing for NDIS drivers and NetWare SCSI drivers.
2. An "upgrade system" option that works on Linux boxes instead of just previous rev FreeBSD boxes.
3. Symmetric Multiprocessing with kernel preemption (requires kernel preemption).
4. A concerted effort at support for portable computers. This is somewhat handled by changing PCMCIA bridging rules and power management event handling. But there are things like detecting internal vs. external display and picking a different screen resolution based on that fact, not spinning down the disk if the machine is in dock, and allowing dock-based cards to disappear without affecting the machines ability to boot (same issue for PCMCIA).