From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 16:40:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA16486 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:40:07 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA16471 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 16:40:03 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id TAA01107; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:36:25 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199503210036.TAA01107@hda.com> Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? To: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:36:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503202253.OAA01706@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 20, 95 02:53:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 857 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267