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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> >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.

The QLogic firmware can be downloaded from the Qlogic WWW site (for 2100 
there is a link on the page http://www.qlc.com/bbs-html/qla2100.html ,
I guess the same it true for the other boards) and flashed onto the board. 
I'm not sure about the Alpha systems but on PC their flash utility works 
fine. I used it recently to get it working with a commercial Unix.

Or is it some different kind of firmware ?

-SB


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