From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 20:33:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA20359 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 20:33:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from easy.stallion.com (easy.stallion.com [204.31.184.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA20347 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 20:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from cluster.stallion.oz.au by easy.stallion.com id aa10248; 2 Feb 96 20:31 PST Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: Michael Smith Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:25:14 +1000 (AEST) From: Greg Ungerer Cc: terry@lambert.org, gerg@stallion.oz.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602010101.LAA20513@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 1, 96 11:31:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <9602031425.aa23238@cluster.stallion.oz.au> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > The host driver code will be available in source form. It has been > > > available for Linux for about 12 months now. The slave (that is download) > > > code will only be available in binary. It was just easier to use Stallions > > > standard image, since it has just about everything you will ever need to > > > do in it. And in any case most people will not have the tools to build it... > > > > What are the distribution terms on this image? > > More importantly, is the interface to this image well defined and > available? No slight on Gerg, but I can imagine a number of core > members who will indubitably want to tinker 8) Yeah, it is well defined. There is a document that describes the interface and how it works. I am not sure of what its distribution status is though. I will check up on that... Seeya Gerg --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Ungerer EMAIL: gerg@stallion.com Stallion Technologies Pty Ltd PHONE: +61 7 3270 4271 33 Woodstock Rd, Toowong, QLD 4066, Australia FAX: +61 7 3270 4245