On Oct 3,  3:17pm, Ale Terlevich wrote:
> Subject: Re: What happened to autobuild?
>
>
> >
> > The background is that I've suped the latest sources and tried to build a
> > kernel and it seems that a newer csc.o is needed. Btw, what was the latest
> > state of the dreadful NDA from Cumana?
> >
>
>  Russell King, of ArmLinux fame is writing a Cumana SCSI II driver for
> ArmLinux whthout (as far as I know) any help from Cumana. Indeed the
> latest kernel sources patch on the ArmLinux FTP site contains its source,
> although it can't do much more than read the devices on the SCSI bus as
> of yet!
>
>
>  So, once that driver gets (more) finished, will the RiscBSD NDA
> agreement be irrelevant? Could the ptsc driver be modified using the info
> in the ArmLinux driver?

Yes, provided the information wasn't obtained by reverse-engineering. If
Russell obtained the information through a legitimate channel (ie one he can't
be sued over) then we (or someone) can use the information to write an
unencumbered driver.

Cheers

Rob