From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 06:23:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA28530 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (root@itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA28520 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars.hsc.fr (pb@mars.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5/itesec-1.9) with ESMTP id PAA20237; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:22:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from pb@localhost) by mars.hsc.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5/pb-19970301) id PAA05215; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:22:34 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970915152233.OS63632@mars.hsc.fr> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:22:33 +0200 From: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr (Pierre Beyssac) To: darrenr@cyber.com.au (Darren Reed) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I20 to cause problems for linux et al. (fwd) References: <199709151158.VAA10836@plum.cyber.com.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199709151158.VAA10836@plum.cyber.com.au>; from Darren Reed on Sep 15, 1997 21:58:43 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Darren Reed: [ I20 ] > > of hefty licence fees. Furthermore, developers have to promise not to release any > > information on this interface, nor any source code for any drivers that they develop The following Wired article : http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/5343.html _had_ a link to a draft (V1.5) of their specs (on the FTP server of the consortium itself). It used to be publicly accessible when Wired issued the story, by end July: it is a nice 2Mb PDF document and I downloaded it out of curiosity. [ The link from Wired was removed apparently around August 1st ] -rw-r--r-- 1 pb staff 1968945 Jul 22 01:37 ver1-5.pdf I didn't keep the URL but I doubt it still is accessible now without being a member (I'm not). A search for "ver1-5.pdf" on Altavista yields the following, among others: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~mitz/ which has a link to the document: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/ver1-5.pdf Note that only I2O members have to comply with their stupid requirements regarding driver source code distribution. -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr