Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:50:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preliminary Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver for FreeBSD-current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912211144220.57114-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <199912211939.NAA04949@free.pcs>
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I did coordinate with you- you didn't offer to share any technical information with me and seemed to indicate that the driver would have trouble being released with source. You also said "I haven't written a NetWork driver either". See correspondence below. Hey- if your driver is cleaner and better and the way to go, maybe it should go in. I was paid by a company (that's why the copyright is Traakan, not me) to do an Intel GigE driver for their proprietary OS, and I said a FreeBSD/NetBSD version would be part of the deal. I've had some fun doing this and some grief, and I happen to like the spareness of what I've done, but I'm not *totally* wedded to it. It is in fact *because* I remember you mentioning that you were doing a driver that I didn't just check this into CVS (about 50%- the other 50% would be to get some review). -matt Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:03:08 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver Hello - If possible, please send me what you have. I just received the manuals and a sample card for the next generation silicon of this chip, but probably won't be able to start work on it until later this week. -- Jonathan Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 07:10:05 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver How did you manage to get manuals? I had to reverse engineer the linux driver? And after having been up for about 72 hours to try and finish this for a customer, you can imagine I'm a bit dismayed by your mail. Like, who the heck are you? :-) On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > Hello - > > If possible, please send me what you have. I just received the > manuals and a sample card for the next generation silicon of this > chip, but probably won't be able to start work on it until later this > week. > -- > Jonathan > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:10:05AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > How did you manage to get manuals? I had to reverse engineer the linux > driver? And after having been up for about 72 hours to try and finish this > for a customer, you can imagine I'm a bit dismayed by your mail. > > Like, who the heck are you? :-) Well, the startup that I was working for got gobbled by cisco, so I guess I'm now working for cisco. These chips were actually (as was explained to me) a cisco design, and are produced by intel. So I asked someone at cisco to obtain documentation on the card for me, and a package arrived on my desk last friday. Now, every page has an "Intel Restricted Secret" stamped on it, and I haven't signed an NDA, but this is probably covered by the employment agreement I signed last week. However, my understanding is that both cisco and intel would like to open-source any driver written for the card. Meaning, I'll write a driver, which should cover both the existing card and the next-generation card which is due to be released. As far as FreeBSD is concerned, I know I can release a binary driver immediatly, while I figure out what cisco's procdedure is for releasing sources as well. Intel's version is under a BSD license, so I don't anticipate this being a problem. Who do you work for, anyway? -- Jonathan <jlemon@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:47:56 -0600 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Subject: Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:37:04AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > It's my understanding that the next rev chip is Intel only- not cisco. Perhaps it is, maybe they took the orignal silicon and redid it. But I'm pretty sure that cisco will be using the next rev in their products. > Myself. Let me ponder whether to show you my pathetic attempts at a > network driver. Well, be forewarned that I haven't written a network driver either; the only driver I've written is the compaq ida driver, and that was reverse-engineered from the Linux one. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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