In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jack Vogel" writes : >> When I talked to HP's licensing department, there were a $1k licensefee >> for anything IEEE1588 related and their message was that even if >> the FreeBSD foundation got such a license, the users would still >> have to have one as well if they compiled the source code or some >> such nonsense. > >What source code was being talked about? I'm not talking about >anything userland, and my driver is just turning on a hardware >feature, I can't imagine HP having anything to do with it, but I >double check internally.
They seem to think they have a patent on doing things that way, no matter what hardware or software you use. If Intel chips have hw-support for timestamping, somebody at intel must have thought about the patent thing. But as I said, if that can be resolved, it should certainly go in. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
