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Offline JoannaK

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Re: Theo de Raadt says Pegasos Bad
« on: March 25, 2004, 12:59:30 PM »
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Batman wrote:

Third, OpenBSD's policy is always to support hardware makers that give full and free access to the documentation (Read: no NDA). Look backward in that mailing list for a thread about SPARC documentation for OpenBSD. :-D


Ah.. In that case this would have nothing to do with Genesi. Ok, it's Genesi's decision to use Marvell Chipset on their board, but this NDA policy is Marvell's and there is nothign Genesi can do to avoid it.

OTOH: This ethernet is on SAME chip as Ram controller and other North-bridge stuff... So if they have support (and documentation) for rest of Pegasos 2 then adding GB ethernet driver should not be any problem.

Apparently this ain't the issue here.. I do understand that communicating with Genesi can be Pain and those older boards (given free to developers) have not been up to specs... But still, it does not add up.