In message: <20070802235154.3d518c3d_at_localhost> Jona Joachim <jaj_at_hcl-club.lu> writes: : On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:59:32 +1200 : "Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <marcos_at_tpnet.co.nz> wrote: : : > Hi there. : > It's the Atheros openhal driver supported in freebsd already? : : I asked some time if there was any interest in porting OpenHAL to : FreeBSD. See the archive of the -advocacy mailing list. : I don't think there is any interest. FreeBSD is using a proprietary : closed source driver, a so-called blob, for Atheros chipsets and they : feel comfortable with it. The leaders hardly ever discuss such : decisions. While what you say might be literally true, the way you say it makes it sound like a conspiracy. The term blob is offensive to some. And frankly, nobody has ever submitted, that I've seen, an alternate Atheros driver that came anywhere close to the level of functionality in the current tree. : Quoting from : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/people.html: : "In order to develop FreeBSD, committers must have the ability to : openly discuss matters that will be resolved before they are publicly : announced. Frank discussions of work in progress are not suitable for : open publication and may harm FreeBSD." While this is true, there's never been a private discussion about the atheros hal on developers. Again, you are implying black helicopters where there are none. WarnerReceived on Thu Aug 02 2007 - 21:08:14 UTC
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