From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 31 17:11:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12430 for current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:11:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA12412; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hurricane.cs.duke.edu (hurricane.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.1]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09952; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:10:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by hurricane.cs.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.7.3) id UAA24020; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:10:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:10:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199708010010.UAA24020@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Smith Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code talks: announcing EIDE bus master patches In-Reply-To: <199707310311.MAA25330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199707301924.PAA08936@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199707310311.MAA25330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > Andrew Gallatin stands accused of saying: > > > > I suppose this is as good a time to ask as any: I have a FreeBSD > > driver 95% done for Myrinet cards such as this. Who can I talk to > > about the possibility of getting it committed to -current? There are > > some sticky issues that may prevent its inclusion (specifically > > GPL'ed libraries that are required to communicate w/the vendor > > supported "firmware" that runs on the card & which I cannot think of a > > clean way to build). > > The GPL'd libraries won't prevent it being included; there is a > precedent for handling useful GPL kernel components. > > If nobody else sticks their hand up, I'd be happy to do the actual > grunt work involved in committing it. Thanks for the offer! Let's take this dialogue offline for now.. There are some details I'd like to talk about w/you that I don't want to bore everybody with. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590