Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:39:24 -0800 From: Rick Flower <rickf@ca-flower.com> To: freebsd-proliant <freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hpasm driver status Message-ID: <4B22CA1C.3030501@ca-flower.com> In-Reply-To: <69fcb4630912111309y7489d588w64e92974a5a31fe8@mail.gmail.com> References: <69fcb4630912111230j3b4bcb07u1addd9e3b7bf8286@mail.gmail.com> <69fcb4630912111309y7489d588w64e92974a5a31fe8@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel Clark wrote: > I've searched the list from time to time on this topic. Has anyone been > successful in contacting the author of the the hapsm package, > http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/? His packages were target towards FreeBSD > 5 and FreeBSD 6. With the recent release of the version 8, of the OS, I'm > seriously wondering what the direction is for proliant driver support. I > tried contacting the author a few weeks ago, with no response. From a legal > point of view, what would it take get an actual port from HP? Is it feasible > for a survey form to be setup, to attain interest? I'd be willing to make a > donation to the effort, if this is something that we can make happen. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I wonder whether it might be possible to reverse engineer the code -- not sure if that's legal or not with regards to HP -- who seems to have lost interest.. I doubt it would take them more than 1 hour to rebuild the requisite code to the newer versions of FreeBSD (assuming they had a machine available)..
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