[Soekris] Hifn support - good news!!

[Ryan Corder]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:57 -0400, Gabe E. Nydick wrote:
> Please stop beating up Hifn.  They were nice enough to just talk to me 
> about it, not knowing me from Adam.   There is documentation freely 
> downloadable, which I downloaded, and if I were the
> right kind of developer, I could make the patches myself.

if the proper documentation was available, then this wouldn't be an
issue.  but as it is not available, there is no driver.

> No company can devote time to every single platform that may want their
> stuff.  I love OpenBSD, but it's a teeny niche market, so they're not a
> huge priority.   I'm sure you don't see Plan9 people crying foul because
> Hifn won't produce a driver for them.

OpenBSD didn't ask for time, just specs and docs, nothing else.

> Just be realistic.  Whatever Hifn releases will be able to be ported to
> OpenBSD, in due time.

no, it won't.  as long as the driver depends on a binary blob, it will
never be incorporated or even ported to OpenBSD.  Not my rule, there's.

-- 
Ryan Corder <rcorder at novasyshealth.com>
Systems Engineer, NovaSys Health LLC.
501-219-4444 ext. 646

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