From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 4 19: 9:28 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 4722314CA5 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:09:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from gw100.feral.com (root@femr [128.0.0.2]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA13627 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:13:45 -0800 Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by gw100.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA05925; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:00:00 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 19:00:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Sergey Babkin Cc: Jason Thorpe , wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, adsharma@home.com, current-users@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD FibreChannel support In-Reply-To: <38224476.B1D52286@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 ? See other mail for the details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message