From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 15:02:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AAB4BA for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-la0-f44.google.com (mail-la0-f44.google.com [209.85.215.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1CEC8FC0C for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f44.google.com with SMTP id fr10so6204864lab.3 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:02:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=Wdy1G4dMR8vyG2F7Jqo9D2G8TdQmJc/4xBo/2wCilTM=; b=au79lHIoq6Sm6WgyRUKwLSU8LaSFOIIadniwfKpUe7NVTKfYeAT6FG5PTnUz4pnDdE oZxwFcH8GdfmBYZaYkxLffQ/q0CpO/rcnqu2XLqBJZNSVkLO2ORKAKkBxJSr3aOWGR25 hgqHYFsz+IUcgN8gnaRiLCY3qJo/oGKcXs7Gc= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=Wdy1G4dMR8vyG2F7Jqo9D2G8TdQmJc/4xBo/2wCilTM=; b=bGWq2RzIAIGJx64z6ENCBWN3zKj7TaIUBLGaX211K+wAUNf7fs4lu7ANVqITzSXuH1 bQGqAkQy19Yqmnir0Wj60h7EEeucXswMwbet7o9kcXs1HKNMPmS5CRjV4ssbDtXHAxbb V3SoSxNSL81KliRYIYkGRNjBAYdrQs9HlqBUU74wCf5VJK+DVucYeR2BjBabFsalTJDf 8+vRE/TmhqJ+vgJ44iOLx7auudVMKIMmLngry2Sdn3kHjp1ElDmG3I5uBLLrKjD0bFWJ UtMJwPSlYp73ZvmLApR2tVsTdasSx59Ko5UrCOVshIhyS/sHc8xB83PFPp0Ng/EsHY98 pJvA== Received: by 10.112.10.232 with SMTP id l8mr18911386lbb.69.1357138927205; Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:02:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.112.75.200 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 07:01:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130102043249.GA1453@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: <20130102012604.GA6382@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <20130102043249.GA1453@michelle.cdnetworks.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 10:01:34 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: supporting AR8161/8165 To: pyunyh@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlfTHZq8r0kh9on6H9EXqj24RhogcxPu6WVSqPPBHkyNp+mPWlSxqTwQmsCn0u7lCXd4tkt Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, yongari@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:02:14 -0000 On 1 January 2013 23:32, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > Having direct vendor support has huge benefit to FreeBSD community > and the vendor used to express their willingness to support > FreeBSD. I'm afraid the vendor loses interests on supporting > FreeBSD if the vendor find a community maintained driver. This is a valid concern. Perhaps we could reach out to them and find out what their current interest level is? -- Eitan Adler