Hello,
Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > [...]
note that if adaptec simply opensourced their managment tools we wouldn't
have this problem at all. I wonder why Adaptec did that for the old
i2o-based controllers but not aacraid.Oh yes, that, worked hard on the powers-that-be to permit this. Could not release a substantial majority of it because it would violate licensed libraries (Zinc, being one of them, I am sorry to admit). So we release the engine and the raidutil. No logger, no remote communication engine, no GUI and no browser engine either. It was the best we could do. Once released, and under a BSD license, the open source community failed to contribute one change to the sources. All it did was permit the tools to be packaged, archived and to continue in-perpetuity when compatibility libraries failed to work on newer installations.
Hmmm, IMHO that's not 100% correct... It's true that currently there is no new version. I'm working on the 64-bit version and a rewrite of the kernel-interface to get rid of the ioctl's... Because i'm still working on the interface, i haven't released both the kernel as well as the raidutils yet. But you could look into subversion to see that there *is* developement. Also IMHO it is be better to provide documentation for how to program the controller instead of releasing the source of the management tool itself.
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