From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 17:35:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11C216A4DE for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:35:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD0A43D45 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:35:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 22265 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2006 17:35:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (775067@[217.50.135.150]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Aug 2006 17:35:54 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:35:45 +0200 From: Fabian Keil To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060820193545.542309a4@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060818173752.188232e5.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <44E58BAB.9060906@unsane.co.uk> <20060818173752.188232e5.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2008-08-18.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_mCfnGnmt7s8KHkTpn/n8d7S"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Subject: Re: 3945ABG wireless Driver and drm for i945GM issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:35:57 -0000 --Sig_mCfnGnmt7s8KHkTpn/n8d7S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:43:07 +0100 > Vince wrote: >=20 > > that the big discontinued all across his website mean he's no longer > > working on the freebsd driver. > > Does anyone know if this is the case >=20 > Funny you should ask. A few weeks ago I tested the driver on FreeBSD > 6.1, found that it didn't work (nobody had siad that it would work, > either), and sent Damien a mail wirth my findings. > In his reply, he stated that the wpi driver for FreeBSD was developed > for his own personal use, and that he don't plan on any further > development of this driver. He stated that he maintains the driver in > OpenBSD. See for the reason (from his point of view of course): |I've been a FreeBSD src committer for a bit more than |a year. I've been trying to maintain my ipw, iwi, ral, |and ural drivers inside the FreeBSD source tree. | |I left the FreeBSD project a few weeks ago. Some developers |started to commit code in my drivers without even asking for |my approval while others were publicly criticizing my work |in talks where I did not attend so I didn't have a chance |to reply. Because of this, I was no longer having fun working |in FreeBSD so I left. This is kind of sad since I still have |a lot of respect for most FreeBSD developers. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_mCfnGnmt7s8KHkTpn/n8d7S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE6J14BYqIVf93VJ0RAmqiAKCxHrK0jsgd5u2PI/CH3s0vp0En0wCfSxKP KEUJsDpDbNdWod8zGsWO/YU= =v0iM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_mCfnGnmt7s8KHkTpn/n8d7S--