> >permission.
> 
> Nope.  The last communication I had with Intel was around last May.
> Initially, the Field Engineer indicated that Intel wanted to get a 
> copy of my driver in order to clean it up and put it on Intel's website.
> 
> I provided Intel with the driver, and they passed it to their engineering
> team.  The last I heard was that they claimed the driver had 'issues', 
> but were unwilling to tell me what those were, or what I would need to do
> in order to release the driver.  The message I received indicated that they
> were investigating simply developing their own driver for BSD instead.
> 
> I never heard anything from Intel since then.
> 
> So, the status is:
> 
>    1. I have a working high performance driver, but cannot legally
>       release the source.  I have no idea why, since it doesn't reveal
>       any information that can't already be found in the Linux driver.
>    2. Intel has my driver, under the BSD license, so they could release
>       it if they feel like.  Apparently they do not see the need to do so.
> 
> If anyone wants to lean on their Intel reps to see if they can get the
> situation changed, or at least provide me with an explanation for what 
> I see as their idiotic behavior, I'd be happy to work with them.

Let me chime in and say I sort of still do support and maintain my version in
both OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but if Jonathon's was freed up, I'm sure it'd be
better.


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