On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:14:55PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > On Tue 19 Feb, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > A few years ago, I was in touch with John Balance (sp) of Castle Tech. > > Around that time, they weren't open-source friendly, and as such no > > drivers ever got written for their cards. I don't know if they've > > changed, but I'm willing to listen if they have. > > They have been helpful to me on this subject. I got info and test hardware > for their storm cards and some info on the other cards (EtherSCSI etc). > > I also have kinetic card info. They are somewhat touchy about who gets to see > what but are essentially helpful.
That's interesting. When I talked to John in 1998, it was definitely a case of "sign an NDA, don't release source" or "we'll write a closed source driver for you". There was no possibility of any other solution. With Acorn disappearing, they might have changed their tune I suppose. _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/armlinux/mailinglists.php Please visit the above addresses for information on this list.
