From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 24 14:29:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA24787 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 May 1995 14:29:14 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA24716 ; Wed, 24 May 1995 14:26:14 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id OAA23757; Wed, 24 May 1995 14:25:40 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199505242125.OAA23757@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Drivers for FORE systems cards under FreeBSD To: pss@fore.com Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, rv@fore.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, announce@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505242114.AA09336@loach.fore.com> from "Pragnesh Sampat" at May 24, 95 05:14:50 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1044 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I wish they'd make up their mind! > > Poul and I have an ATM network with FORE aystems on it we could test against, > > but I doubt we're going to fork over 10K for it.. > > > > julian > > The AALI is on our ftp server and a public document. It does *not* require > an NDA. What Jim Carlin (the email you are referring to) meant was for a > program we have for Independent Software Vendors (ISV). ISV is a package > which has the source code to the driver in addition to the AALI (and some > other stuff) and requires an NDA. There are vendors who buy this and > port/build a driver for their platform etc. Jim just may not have been > aware that the AALI is a publicly available document. I hope this is > clear. Let me know otherwise. So what exactly is this offer then ? Now >I'm< confused too. Oh and btw, what is the prices for your boards ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'