From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 21 10:23:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 260AF14D31 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu) Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA12122; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:26:26 -0400 From: Bill Paul Message-Id: <199910211726.NAA12122@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver To: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com (John Reynolds~) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:26:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <14351.18373.418811.886740@hip186.ch.intel.com> from "John Reynolds~" at Oct 21, 99 10:05:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1476 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message