On 3/21/07, Ryan Corder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:57 -0400, Gabe E. Nydick wrote:
> >                  There is documentation freely
> > downloadable, which I downloaded, and if I were the
> > right kind of developer, I could make the patches myself.
>
> if the proper documentation was available, then this wouldn't be an
> issue.  but as it is not available, there is no driver.

The proper docs are available at: ftp://ftp.hifn.com/.  The problem is
these docs only came out late last year, AFTER the OpenBSD people made
a big issue out of it.  At the time this seemed to meet the needs of
the OpenBSD developers.

The "fix" for FreeBSD is a totally different project.  Michael
Richardson of Xelerance was hired by Hifn to make a working software
stack for Linux and FreeBSD for the hifn chips. I think this started a
year ago, well before the OpenBSD v. HiFn standoff.
http://www.xelerance.com/pr/20070205/

It looks like there is a little howto info at:  http://hifn.xelerance.com/.

At any rate, it looks like progress is being made so I'm hopeful that
good drivers will be available in the not too distant future.

Austin
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