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Subject: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex
	GDT851...)
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
>
>> That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me
>> the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they
>> were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have
>> to say about the GDT controllers.
>
> OK - so here's the deal:
>
> The GDT products are officially EOE (End Of Engineering).
> ICP Vortex will not provide capacity to update their own
> driver for FreeBSD 6.
>
> The new products will feature full FreeBSD support, eventually.
> (couple of weeks, he said)

'k, just to clarify here ... the new products won't be based on the iir(4) 
driver then?  Basically, should the iir(4) driver be considered EOE also?

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