Dear Margarita, Can you resend Sean's email because I didn't receive his email?
Up to this point, we are offering binary package based on customer request, because binary driver package only support one specific kernel version. Hence it is inconvenience for customer and time consuming. Please advice when is the next release update and which kernel version? Can I send you and Sean our Linux open source driver? Best Regards, May Hwang HighPoint Technologies,Inc. Tel:408-240-6118/6112 Fax-408-942-5800 -----Original Message----- From: Margarita Manterola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HighPoint- GPL Licensed Controller wants To be Include In Debian Distribution Hi May Hwang! On Jan 28, 2008 2:59 PM, May Hwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These Hardware RAID controllers offer GPL licensed Linux Open Source driver > and have been accepted into 2.6.25 main kernel tree but since this is not a > stable kernel version yet so our Debian system integrators still have to go > through driver compilation in every installation process. Therefore, our > Debian customers request HighPoint must work with Debian developer to > include our linux drivers into the latest Debian Distribution. HighPoint is > always looking ways to provide friendly use experience for customers so we > will assign a dedicated firmware interface to work with Debian developer on > this project. As Sean said, it's great that you are making this effort to provide a better experience for your users. Regarding Debian's latest distribution, once a distribution gets into a "stable" form, it gets "frozen"; this means that Debian won't add extra packages to it. However, once you make the package, following the guidelines that Sean gave you, you can provide that package to your customers, for them to download. The amount of effort for downloading a module from a different site than the official Debian site, is almost nothing compared to the effort of compiling and installing the module by hand, I think your customers would be perfectly satisfied if you provide the package at your site, until the next release (by then it will already be included in the kernel). -- Besos, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]