Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs. Sun
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/05/2002 15:12:27
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:32:51PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:

 > We do not have that information and don't support UltraSparc III or III+
 > machines.
 > 
 > We did contact SUN about this (friendly & polite) and did receive an 
 > encouraging response. Nothing concrete has happened yet.

Probably some progress could be made if we (that is, NetBSD developers
who would do this work) offered to sign the NDA, under the same terms
that the Linux people got (i.e. "can release source code").  This might
save them a lot of hassle.

There is precendence for doing this -- e.g. I have an NDA with Intel
that allows me to see documentation on their Gigabit Ethernet stuff.
I am allowed to release source code for the drivers, but I am not allowed
to give a copy of the documentation to anyone else.  This suits me
just fine.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>