From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 4 13:53:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DADB14C2B; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:53:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: (from mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA12126; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:57:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:57:24 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob Message-Id: <199911042157.NAA12126@feral.com> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Subject: Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support Cc: , adsharma@home.com, Bulte@feral.com, current-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@hub.freebsd.org, Wilko@feral.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >What gives? Why wasn't this committed to the NetBSD and FreeBSD trees, >too? I mean, it's not like the version in the NetBSD tree works anymore >since you removed the firmware (on-board firmware on most of the adapters >I have is way too old, for example). > >Any reason NetBSD and FreeBSD don't just lift the firmware images you >committed to OpenBSD? Because what I did was wrong. It should also be removed from OpenBSD. I've had extensive discussions with Theo about this, and the f/w will probably be removed from OpenBSD as soon as the tree unlocks post 2.6. Unless Qlogic agrees to a BSD style licence. So far, they've not been helpful at all. One alternative I've been discussing with the Qlogic folks is to flesh out their beta linux driver to have these f/w sets, and point people at them. There are many possible ways around this, and for this, and I think it's a huge pain, but it really should not have been handled the way I handled it so far. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message