From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 30 20:12:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26982 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26974; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA25330; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:41:49 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707310311.MAA25330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: code talks: announcing EIDE bus master patches In-Reply-To: <199707301924.PAA08936@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Jul 30, 97 03:24:54 pm" To: gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU (Andrew Gallatin) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:41:49 +0930 (CST) Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew Gallatin stands accused of saying: > > I suppose this is as good a time to ask as any: I have a FreeBSD > driver 95% done for Myrinet cards such as this. Who can I talk to > about the possibility of getting it committed to -current? There are > some sticky issues that may prevent its inclusion (specifically > GPL'ed libraries that are required to communicate w/the vendor > supported "firmware" that runs on the card & which I cannot think of a > clean way to build). The GPL'd libraries won't prevent it being included; there is a precedent for handling useful GPL kernel components. If nobody else sticks their hand up, I'd be happy to do the actual grunt work involved in committing it. > Drew -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[