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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.iii.net!iii1.iii.net!not-for-mail From: hdslip@iii1.iii.net (HD Associates) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: AHA-2940 SCSI adapter Date: 13 May 1995 13:57:42 -0400 Organization: HD Associates, Inc. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3p2rv9$69h@iii1.iii.net> References: <3njpbb$h32@anshar.shadow.net> <3nl6o0$80o@serpens.rhein.de> <3opmtj$fec@enigma.uniserve.com> <MICHAELV.95May12222347@mindbender.headcandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: iii1.iii.net > FreeBSD has a driver. All that is required is that someone > port the driver to NetBSD. > >But, if you port the FreeBSD (or Linux) driver, you will have to >maintain it yourself -- it won't be able to go in the true NetBSD >distribution, since both drivers have GNU-copylefted code in them. Take a look at the new copyright. John Aycock has released the sequencer firmware with a BSD-like copyright. You'll find it has moved in FreeBSD from a gnu directory to /usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx. Thanks to John for making this possible, and to Justin Gibbs for doing the leg work and the driver work. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267