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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: AHA 2742/2842 cards *will* be supported in 2.0BETA (and -current)
Date: 7 Dec 1994 02:41:29 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <3b4vgc$61f@gnu.mat.uc.pt> rps@mat.uc.pt writes:
] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) wrote:
] > And it will support the Adaptec 27xx/28xx cards by default.  Support
] > is already in -current, so current folk can use it as of this (Thursday)
] > morning.
] 
] How did people got enough information to do the drivers ?
]  - Did Adaptec changed its policy ?
]  - Or did people found a work-around ? (I remember seing a post by
]    someone explaining that the information that Adaptect didn't want to
]    give was not strictly necessary)
]  - Or did they reverse-engineered ?
]  - Or shouldn't I be asking ? :)

It uses GPL'ed sequencer code with some limitations (although performance
is still very good -- it might get much better later) from the Linux
driver project.

The download and other code was newly written.

No, I had nothing to do with this.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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