Yeah, I got the same stuff you've got, most likely, also from Joel
Silverman. I told Becker about it, He jsut moments ago write me back. He
said it was probably what he needed, but that he also needed permission to
redistribute (written, I assume). We may end up writing a driver
ourselves, which would be fine. I'll see what we says....
Thanks!
-M
You said...
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jeff Kwan wrote:
>
> > OK, I'm probably over my head here... But maybe some of this info will be
> > helpful. (maybe?) I was checking the FreeBSD source base and I found the
> > firmware. I have no idea how Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (the guy
> > who wrote the FreeBSD driver) got it, but it's there. The source for the
> > driver in FreeBSD is fairly well documented but I don't know about
> > FreeBSD<->Linux driver similarities and whether or not copying from them
> > is allowed.
>
> I got the firmware and programming manual frol KLSI. The trick is
> finding the right people to ask. I *swear* I mailed this info to
> Donald Becker after he asked me about it last time (I sent it to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But I never heard anything back. *grr* Anyway,
> the person to ask is Joel Silverman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I specifically
> asked about issues concerning the redistribution of the firmware
> and they told me they had no problems with it being included in
> FreeBSD. The only concern they had was about redistribution of
> their Windows driver source, which I didn't care about one bit.
> I didn't have to sign any NDAs or license agreements: they just
> gave me the stuff and left me alone.
>
> Ideally people should ask them for this stuff themselves, however
> since I didn't sign any NDAs, I guess there's nothing to prevent
> me from making it available. Intrested parties can look at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/KLSI
> I placed two files there: klsi.pdf and BinFiles.zip. The latter
> contains the firmware images and some sample code for a Windows driver
> to load it. The former is the document that describes the interface
> available once the firmware is loaded and running. This is all that
> I got from KLSI.
>
> As for copying FreeBSD stuff, I don't care if people swipe chunks
> of my code. I can't take it with me, can I.
>
> -Bill
>
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