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Date:      Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:53:46 +0000
From:      Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r230972 - in head: share/mk sys/amd64/conf sys/i386/conf sys/modules sys/modules/drm sys/modules/sound/driver sys/modules/usb tools/build/options
Message-ID:  <CAOfDtXMEduBDyC=N0kJ8biUw3tHMteGngWwpuAohKq0fE__ckQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201202061248.43744.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201202040054.q140siBP012241@svn.freebsd.org> <201202061248.43744.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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El 6 de febrer de 2012 17:48, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> ha escrit:
> On Friday 03 February 2012 07:54 pm, Robert Millan wrote:
>> +nodevice =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ti
>
> Tigon 1 and 2 had open-sourced firmware. =C2=A0In fact, I believe wpaul
> developed custom firmware for FreeBSD and the (early?) sources are
> still available here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/

Well, there's always source somewhere.  I just noticed that some of my
original intent of this MK knob was blurred when renaming to
"MK_SOURCELESS".  The part that is relevant to me (I don't know about
others, just talking for myself here!) is whether a driver is
completely built from source or if a chunk of binary bytes (either
uuencode'd or as a C array) is used instead.

But of course if source is available we could avoid this debate by
just integrating it into the tree :-).  Is this something that would
be desireable in FreeBSD?  I notice there's something similar already
(sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm). Btw, which would be the appropiate list to
discuss this?  freebsd-arch?



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