I was always under the impression Mandrake included proprietary .o files. no?
It would be a real shame to not have this module as there are lot of KT333 motherboards out there that use this raid controller chip instead of the promise one. Nick Todd Lyons wrote: > Nick Brown wrote on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:46:17PM +0100 : >> Does the madrake kernel support the highpoint hpt372 chipset? >> Opensource driver source code is available at; >> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz > > Ummmm, not quite: > > [todd@fiji ~]$ tar -zxvf hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz -C tmp > rules.mak > Makefile > hpt.c > hptkern.h > hptglb.h > hpt.h > hpt37x2lib.o <----------- # Proprietary binary module > readme.txt > > Maybe on the commercial CD's, but I hardly see management consenting to > put that in the Mandrake kernel due to its non open source license. > Just my two cents. > > Blue skies... Todd
