Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 10:56:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: zhaoc@cloud9.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103101056060.22293-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200103101850.f2AIomg75678@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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> >permission. > > Nope. The last communication I had with Intel was around last May. > Initially, the Field Engineer indicated that Intel wanted to get a > copy of my driver in order to clean it up and put it on Intel's website. > > I provided Intel with the driver, and they passed it to their engineering > team. The last I heard was that they claimed the driver had 'issues', > but were unwilling to tell me what those were, or what I would need to do > in order to release the driver. The message I received indicated that they > were investigating simply developing their own driver for BSD instead. > > I never heard anything from Intel since then. > > So, the status is: > > 1. I have a working high performance driver, but cannot legally > release the source. I have no idea why, since it doesn't reveal > any information that can't already be found in the Linux driver. > 2. Intel has my driver, under the BSD license, so they could release > it if they feel like. Apparently they do not see the need to do so. > > If anyone wants to lean on their Intel reps to see if they can get the > situation changed, or at least provide me with an explanation for what > I see as their idiotic behavior, I'd be happy to work with them. Let me chime in and say I sort of still do support and maintain my version in both OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but if Jonathon's was freed up, I'm sure it'd be better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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