From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 17:45:39 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA08735 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 17:45:39 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA08727 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 17:45:34 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.3) id UAA06585; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 20:43:59 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199506230043.UAA06585@hda.com> Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports To: dom@floyd.santarosa.edu (Dominic Franchetti) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 20:43:59 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dominic Franchetti" at Jun 22, 95 04:55:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1270 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Dominic Franchetti writes: > Does FreeBSd suport Digi's PC/8 board? I already have one so it would be > FreeBSD doesn't have a DigiBoard driver for the intelligent DigiBoards. (We have to put the balance of this answer in the FAQ:) FreeBSD does not yet support any of the DigiBoard products with the FEP (Front End Processor) interface. The information needed to program these boards requires a non-disclosure aggreement, precluding the usual FreeBSD practice of releasing the source code under a Berkeley style licence. Though this doesn't prevent anyone from writing the driver, it does put the author in the "hot seat" as a single point of support. Digi has made a Linux driver available due to market demand. Serge Babkin (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) is working on a port of that driver. When finished, the driver will be a GPL driver in the GPL part of the source tree, and binary kernels with the driver will not be supplied in the "official" distribution. Questions about DigiBoard support for FreeBSD and other questions about DigiBoard products should be addressed to info@digibd.com. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267