From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 22 10: 7:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D5537B720 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:07:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p59-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.124]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id DAA09782; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:07:42 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3ABA3EB1.B3DDE35B@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:04:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message