From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 13 4:50:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BFB37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3886743E42 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from langd@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Received: from mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.254.5]) by mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8400612C for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:50:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.42.129]) by mailrelay1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77027942 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:50:06 +0100 (MET) Received: by atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 20455) id B50021361A; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:50:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:50:06 +0100 From: Daniel Lang To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: MOXA Intellio driver project Message-ID: <20021113125006.GB59661@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Geek: GCS/CC d-- s: a- C++$ UBS++++$ P+++$ L- E-(---) W+++(--) N++ o K w--- O? M? V? PS+(++) PE--(+) Y+ PGP+ t++ 5+++ X R+(-) tv+ b+ DI++ D++ G++ e+++ h---(-) r++>+++ y+ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I plan to develop a driver for the MOXA Intelliio C320Turbo/PCI board. This is an intelligent serial multiport card. I've already contacted John Hay, who wrote the puc(4) driver and got some hint, I will also study the developers handbook. MOXA is willig to send me the specs for this card, but I have to sign an NDA. Now I'm not sure yet, how this will affect the resulting driver code (provided, there is any). How should I proceed? Would binary only KLD driver still be of some use? Is it likely, that I can publish the driver code under BSD license, although protected specs from MOXA have been used? Regardless of these license issues, I'm not experienced in programming device drivers or even system programming at all. I guess I would need someone to ask, from time to time, if I'm stuck, preferrably someone with good knowledge about serial communication. Who would you recommend, or who would be willig, to be harrased by my feeble efforts. :-} Thanks for your help. Best regards, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - Der Schatten von Hasenfuss ist ziemlich dunkel - *Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message