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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:26:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
To:        jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com (John Reynolds~)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver
Message-ID:  <199910211726.NAA12122@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <14351.18373.418811.886740@hip186.ch.intel.com> from "John Reynolds~" at Oct 21, 99 10:05:09 am

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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ 
had to walk into mine and say: > 
 
> A friend just passed this along:
> 
>   http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coa6pWbKbyte0mtu
> 
> Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit support for Linux. Source code too (non-GPL'ed very
> much like a BSD-ish license).

Just in case anyone is wondering, I refuse to create BSD drivers based
soley on information from Linux drivers. I don't want any damn Linux
source: I want the programming manual used to create the driver in
the first place. Why? If Intel is willing to release unencumbered 
Linux source, then they should be willing to release the manual as well.
If they're not willing, then I don't want anything to do with them.

> I don't have the technicals to understand how hard it would be to port, but
> the code is there for those who do! :)

You work for Intel yet claim technical ignorance? I dunno man... :)

-Bill

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