From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 22 10:15:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D57937B71D for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA63871; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:15:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:15:24 -0500 (EST) From: To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. In-Reply-To: <3ABA3EB1.B3DDE35B@newsguy.com> 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 On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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. I agree 100%. I don't think this will fly either. I am just making the effort to work with Intel to get what we need. It's not going to happen overnight. Period. They are not going to change their NDA policy. In the future maybe. Actually I will forward the email she sent me this last time after I got off the phone with her an hour ago. I mentioned the problems Jonathan had with the GigE card. That's why she refers to him. Anyway I will forward it in a sec to the list. > 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. Well I have a feeling if bill even reads this, which he will probably see Intel in the subject and delete it, or has a procmail filter for 'Intel' :-) he will probably just get more frustrated then he is. Jonathan, I dont know. He is probably as fed up as everyone else. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message