On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Dennis wrote:
> At 01:24 PM 01/25/2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
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> > > If they have a published, freely distributable driver for linux. why would
> > > you have to sign an NDA to port it to FreeBSD?
> >
> >You don't. But reverse engineering isn't always complete.
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> there is a difference between "reverse engineering" and porting a commented
> source driver with a spec for the part available.
That's the crux - the spec isn't available w/o NDA.
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> >I should know- having gone through hell for the Gigabit NIC for *BSD... mostly
> >reverse engineered from the Linux driver.
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> Your problem here was that the LINUX driver was reverse engineered. So your
> source was faulty. The case with the intel driver is the "ASSumption" that
> its been done correctly and that the procedures for using the functions
> available are correct.
>
> Dennis
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