Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:11:01 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588 Message-ID: <53519.1191442261@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:06:26 MST." <2a41acea0710031306p22d66379oc6575ad9ff5ea99d@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <2a41acea0710031306p22d66379oc6575ad9ff5ea99d@mail.gmail.com>, "Jack Vogel" writes : >> When I talked to HP's licensing department, there were a $1k licensefee >> for anything IEEE1588 related and their message was that even if >> the FreeBSD foundation got such a license, the users would still >> have to have one as well if they compiled the source code or some >> such nonsense. > >What source code was being talked about? I'm not talking about >anything userland, and my driver is just turning on a hardware >feature, I can't imagine HP having anything to do with it, but I >double check internally. They seem to think they have a patent on doing things that way, no matter what hardware or software you use. If Intel chips have hw-support for timestamping, somebody at intel must have thought about the patent thing. But as I said, if that can be resolved, it should certainly go in. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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