Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:50:15 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? Message-ID: <199503210150.RAA02403@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 1995 19:36:25 EST." <199503210036.TAA01107@hda.com>
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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?
I know, but the original author is scared or something. I need someone
else in the Linux camp to ask him so that its not only coming from me.
I'm still trying... :-{
>
>Peter
>
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