>> Your stupidity is also is emphasized by the fact that no major manufacturer
>> has supported drivers for freebsd. Intel wont even help by providing docs.
>> Bravo. What a WIN for the freebsd community. You've done a tremendous job
>> marketing your concept.
>
>So that's why Intel provides free bound copies of their IA-64 books and PDF's
>of the other chip manuals, PXE manuals, etc. I guess all those data sheets
>I've seen Bill Paul pore over while working on his ethernet drivers were just
>figments of my imagination as well.
I think he's refering to the 82559 manual. It is available from Intel to
developers, but only with an NDA. For various reasons, I can't sign an NDA
for that information without putting myself in legal jeopardy. That has always
been true, but I was able to obtain the [now older] 82557 manual without an
NDA due to a screwup at Intel - which allowed me to write the original fxp
driver. Unfortunately, a few things have changed since then, especially in
the SEEPROM area and the only method I have of fixing those problems these
days is by reverse-engineering.
-DG
David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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