From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:07:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:07:08 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:12882 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:07:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3D9072B8.5090106@gmx.at> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:12:08 +0200 From: Wilfried Weissmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Petr Slansky , alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hpt370 raid driver References: <20020924132445Z261665-8740+289@vger.kernel.org> <1032875703.2607.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:29, Petr Slansky wrote: > >>Hi Alan! >>do you know that there is a source code of driver for HPT370 raid at the >>manufacturer web? >> >>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm >>http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt3xx-opensource-v13.tgz >> >>Maybe that this can be added to the kernel, there are many motherboards on the >>market with such controller onboard. Is there any poblem with this driver? > > > It's a binary only driver with some glue code.... not open source. The header files are good. They show the structure of the raid signature and some info about the event logs. They could be reused by the linux module, however I do not know if the copyright is a problem there. Does anyone know...? Bye, Wilfried -- Ing. Wilfried Weissmann mailto: Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at Benedikt-Schellingergasse 18/19a Tel.: +43 1 78 64 739 1150 Wien Mobil: +43 676 944 44 65