From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 18:03:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA22418 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 18:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA22413 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 18:03:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA16222 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 18:03:51 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id CAA09341; Fri, 17 May 1996 02:01:53 +0100 (BST) To: Nate Williams cc: Kevin Lyda , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: xircom hardware specs In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 18:31:45 MDT." <199605170031.SAA25091@rocky.sri.MT.net> Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 02:01:51 +0100 Message-ID: <9339.832294911@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote in message ID <199605170031.SAA25091@rocky.sri.MT.net>: > > i sent email to xircom customer support and was informed that they > > would release the specs to interested developers. is anyone pursuing > > this? > > Nope, because signing an NDA means the source can't be distributed if a > driver is written. Which reminds me ... the last discussion I remember being had on this topic came to the conclusion that FreeBSD people won't object to binary only drivers, just as long as they can be linked into the kernel. I suppose that's problematic with people who run -current, where the interface can change rapidly, but for -stable people there should be too many problems... I suppose we just need some nutter^H^H^H^H^H^Hvolunteer to have a private CVS tree to maintain the driver and release .o versions when appropriate. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.