From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 09:51:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA28474 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:51:50 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA28468 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:51:49 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01653; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:47:54 -0800 Message-Id: <199503211747.JAA01653@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) cc: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Adaptec sequencer code (was: SVNET Meeting) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Mar 1995 16:40:25 +0100." <9503211541.AA07308@aut.alcatel.at> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:47:54 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> For the purposes of binary distribution, it ought to be easier to >> either get the sequencer code un-GPL'ed, rewrite it, or someone sign >> a non-disclosure with Adaptec and write a binary driver distributed >> soley as .o files. >> >> 8-|. >> > > Since the sequencer code is, as far as I could understand, > just a bunch of raw binary data, is it not itself basically > unreadable (bar disassembly) and as such non disclosing? > > I mean, knowing how they did program the sequencer is nice, > but do we really care that much, as long as it works? We care how they programmed the sequecer so we know how to communicate with it. The abstraction I chose in many of the features I implemented may be a far cry from how Adaptec did it. The sequencer and kernel code are very closely tied. You can't change one without affecting the other. > > I don't know about Adaptec's opinion on distributing only the > object format of the sequencer. Is that kosher? It would have to be a full driver from their HIM kit. > >/Alby > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================