Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:52:45 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101251052220.11014-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010125135815.03ce21b0@mail.etinc.com>
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote: > At 01:24 PM 01/25/2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > If they have a published, freely distributable driver for linux. why would > > > you have to sign an NDA to port it to FreeBSD? > > > >You don't. But reverse engineering isn't always complete. > > > there is a difference between "reverse engineering" and porting a commented > source driver with a spec for the part available. That's the crux - the spec isn't available w/o NDA. > > > > >I should know- having gone through hell for the Gigabit NIC for *BSD... mostly > >reverse engineered from the Linux driver. > > > Your problem here was that the LINUX driver was reverse engineered. So your > source was faulty. The case with the intel driver is the "ASSumption" that > its been done correctly and that the procedures for using the functions > available are correct. > > Dennis > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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