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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:44:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        jmb@hub.freebsd.org, adsharma@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9911041243130.11873-100000@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911041939.UAA01072@yedi.iaf.nl>

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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
> 



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