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Date:      Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:37:27 -0700
From:      Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec AAC raid support 
Message-ID:  <200503192137.j2JLbRIK026873@cvs.openbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:30:55 MST." <423C8BFF.6060500@samsco.org> 

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> What part of the FreeBSD AAC driver is closed, emcumbered, or otherwise 
> non-free?

The bits that do management.

Therefore, the bits that let it do what RAID controllers are meant to do.

Can you fully operate an aac(4) card -- 100% of it's abilities, on a
FreeBSD machine, without using a binary only tool downloaded from the
Dell web site?

Are you being obtuse on purpose?

Why don't you admit it.  FreeBSD relies on non-free binary code for
Adaptec raid management.

You can't even put it onto a FreeBSD distribution CD.

Why do you keep discussing the free stuff, and distracting everyone
from the non-free bits?

Is it because you used to work for Adaptec?  Are you paid to distract
people from the non-free code?



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