From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 24 10:23:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.matriplex.com (ns1.matriplex.com [208.131.42.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F249E37B71B for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rh@matriplex.com) Received: from mail.matriplex.com (mail.matriplex.com [208.131.42.9]) by mail.matriplex.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA13424; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rh@matriplex.com) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:23:07 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Hodges To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. In-Reply-To: <200103241731.SAA49447@info.iet.unipi.it> 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 Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I have read the thread for a while, and i wonder: > > why in the world someone should go through the effort and > responsibility of SIGNING THE NDA _and_ negotiating with Intel > for getting permissions to redistribute the code ? > > I do not see how this is doing any good to the project, given that > 1) there are alternatives (for 100Mbit quite a few of them), and some > cards are even better and cheaper than the "fxp"; Cheaper is of little importance to me (although I would grumble if the price went much over $100). But "better"? Please continue! I am very interested in your insights on alternatives. > 2) even if you have hardware with an "fxp" on board, adding a second > supported card is cheap and easy -- nothing like having to put > in a second video card; For many (most?) people that may be practical. But what about those of us with a 1RU system using fxp on the motherboard and NEED the single PCI slot for something else? I suspect that there are more of us than you might think. All the best, -Richard ------------------------------------------- Richard Hodges | Matriplex, inc. Product Manager | 769 Basque Way rh@matriplex.com | Carson City, NV 89706 775-886-6477 | www.matriplex.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message