Nick Brown wrote: > 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 > > > >
* Sat Mar 16 2002 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1-1mdk - dmi update to fix apm in Dell Inspirons 2500. - smbfs fix for Ooops. - mini ide update (ultra safe mode): * Release recognition of promise ide raid. * fix jiffies workaround things (ide-tape). * hpt37[24], don't oops if we find them * put another WD disk in the ide-dma black list. * fix Oops with hpt37x & a lot of controllers. - 2.4.18-7mdk. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Since this kernel, my Iwill XP333r w/hpt372 onboard controller at least boots. $ ls /lib/modules/2.4.18-19mdk/kernel/drivers/ide | grep hpt hptraid.o.gz
