From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Feb 23 23:29:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FC237B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA28517; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:29:23 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:29:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Lauri Laupmaa Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec F950 fibre channel support ? In-Reply-To: <3A97118A.8004FA6@inspiral.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It is difficult to reverse engineer drivers from Linux source. I've done so in a number of cases. I am unwilling to do so for Fibre Channel. -matt > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > I have some interest in Emulex. However- Emulex (and JNI) has no interest in > > FreeBSD- and barely some interest in Linux. If you can convince Emulex or JNI > > to be more open with their specs and you can get them to cough up the h/w, I > > SOme poster at this page: http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/11/05/106200.shtml > > seem to say that there are emulex drivers for linux with source. > > -- > L. > > Another problem with Linux is that the historically best distributions > (such as Debian) have no corporate accountability, while the commercially > popular distributions (such as Red Hat) are buggy-as-hell and dumbed-down. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message