Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:10:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code talks: announcing EIDE bus master patches Message-ID: <199708010010.UAA24020@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707310311.MAA25330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199707301924.PAA08936@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199707310311.MAA25330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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
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