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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:24:00 -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.4.21.0101251023200.11014-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010125130845.030de0f0@mail.etinc.com>

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> 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.

I should know- having gone through hell for the Gigabit NIC for *BSD... mostly
reverse engineered from the Linux driver.




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