[Soekris] Hifn support - good news!!

[Tobias Weingartner]

On Monday, March 19, "Gabe E. Nydick" wrote:
> 
> Maybe some of you already know this, but I couldn't find any indication and I
> 've searched high and low, but the Hifn driver fix is coming.. FROM Hifn!!

Really... wow... neat...

> >Thanks for your interest in Hifn products.  I'm sure that the folks
> >at Soekris are quite correct, there is nothing wrong with their
> >hardware.  The problems are in the OpenBSD driver for the 7956
> >and in the Open Cryptography Framework itself.  We have spent an
> >inordinate amount of time troubleshooting these problems and are
> >about to release the fruits of our labor.

So this sounds cool.  Nice of them to do so.

> >There will be a FreeBSD version with all bugs fixed available from
> >the Hifn extranet in about three weeks.  Once it has been uploaded
> >you are welcome to try that version.  I'm sure that you will find it
> >both more reliable as well as more performant than the version that
> >you are using now.

WTF!?  Yes, I swore on a public list.  So the "problem" is in the
OpenBSD driver, and they spent all this time fixing it.  And now they
are releasing a FreeBSD version?  Is that not nice of them?  I mean, do
they know the difference between the two, or what's going on?

I'm confused...

--Toby.