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Date:      Thu, 1 Jan 2015 10:59:21 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@isc.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Comtrol Rocketport drivers?
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=EMidxEqMDF66s49C3mECP%2BApP%2BNdCBWZE1Bq7JY3LdA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 30 December 2014 at 20:02, Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@isc.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We use rocketports quite a bit around the office.  We've largely been
> replacing them with USB-based devices, but they're still functional and it
> seems a shame to throw working kit away.
>
> I notice support for these rocketport boards stopped in 7.x.  Did the
> kernel just diverge too much, or was there some other reason support was
> dropped?  (i.e. closed-source driver, etc?).
>
> If there's a better mailing list to ack on (-hackers?) please let me know.

A lack of hardware and a lack of developer interest.

I'm sure you could find someone to pay to update the rocketport driver
for stable/10 and head. :-P




-adrian



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