From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 4 12:40:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6FE14EEC; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA11879; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:44:34 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:44:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte Cc: jmb@hub.freebsd.org, adsharma@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support In-Reply-To: <199911041939.UAA01072@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, don't laugh too hard, but so does Qlogic in a sense. I've just recently had to remove their f/w from the NetBSD and FreeBSD CVS repositories because the copyright was not so good. And in order to get the technical manuals that describe the f/w interface you have to sign an NDA. On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > What does not help is that Emulex consider's their hardware / software > interface a trade secret. Meaning NDAs etc. > > At least this is the last thing I heared. > > Wilko > > > We support the Qlogic 2100/2200 cards currently for both private loop and > > fabrics. The emulex card is popular, but nobody's written a driver for it for > > FreeBSD. > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > > > > Matt, > > > > > > Thank you for lunch at the South American resturant in > > > Berkeley during the FreeBSDCon. > > > > > > Do we have a FibreChannel driver for FreeBSD? Ideally, I am > > > looking for arbitrated loop support on the emulex cards. > > > > > > jmb > > -- > | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message