Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:27:00 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: jmb@hub.freebsd.org, adsharma@home.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support Message-ID: <199911042127.WAA02452@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9911041243130.11873-100000@feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Nov 4, 1999 12:44:34 pm"
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As Matthew Jacob wrote ... I'm not laughing, I think it is a bit sad. I *do* have the Emulex docs available thru my employer. But I can't really use them... Wilko > Well, don't laugh too hard, but so does Qlogic in a sense. I've just recently > had to remove their f/w from the NetBSD and FreeBSD CVS repositories because > the copyright was not so good. And in order to get the technical manuals that > describe the f/w interface you have to sign an NDA. > > > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As Matthew Jacob wrote ... > > > > What does not help is that Emulex consider's their hardware / software > > interface a trade secret. Meaning NDAs etc. > > > > At least this is the last thing I heared. > > > > Wilko > > > > > We support the Qlogic 2100/2200 cards currently for both private loop and > > > fabrics. The emulex card is popular, but nobody's written a driver for it for > > > FreeBSD. > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Matt, > > > > > > > > Thank you for lunch at the South American resturant in > > > > Berkeley during the FreeBSDCon. > > > > > > > > Do we have a FibreChannel driver for FreeBSD? Ideally, I am > > > > looking for arbitrated loop support on the emulex cards. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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