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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:36:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: SVNET Meeting?
Message-ID:  <199503210036.TAA01107@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503202253.OAA01706@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 20, 95 02:53:56 pm

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Justin T. Gibbs writes:
> 
> Oh man.... Hmmm...  The firmware is < 2k.  Its basically an array of
> byte values that the driver dumps to the card.  The current setup
> is the best setup except that it contaminates the GENERIC kernel
> (ie, if someone decides its okay for them to use this driver, it works
> without haveing to do anything special on their part except configure
> for the controller.)  If you can think of a way for the driver to 
> read in an additional file during boot, then we can distribute the 
> firmware separately.

You've helped the Linux people out a bit.  Any chance the original
author will place a version of the sequencer under BSD style
copyright?

Peter

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