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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:29:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@inspiral.net>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec F950 fibre channel support ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102232328470.38585-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A97118A.8004FA6@inspiral.net>

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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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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