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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:04:33 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        scanner@jurai.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.
Message-ID:  <3ABA3EB1.B3DDE35B@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103221218480.62375-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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scanner@jurai.net wrote:
> 
>         She need's specific information that we need that we cant get
> unless we sign NDA's for the doc's so she can try and get them merged into
> a reference product somewhere between the datasheet (worthless) and the
> programming manual (NDA). I know this is not ideal or what bill, jonathon,
> or others want. They would rather Intel just get a friggin clue and stop
> being anal. And while in the long term this may change it isn't going to
> be soon. She is willing to compromise and try and get us doc's on the bits
> we need.

Let me just pipe in a bit. Compromise seems just like the kind of thing
marketing or legal would want to do. The problem is that _we_ cannot
compromise because one cannot write a "half-way there" driver. It's a
technical impossibility.

Now, if Bill Paul, Jonathan Lemon or whoever can come up with a
"compromise" that would work, fine. But otherwise, and I think otherwise
is likely, please explain the above to this person.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net

	It's a rewarding life, but hey, somebody has to have all the fun,
right?

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