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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: rhw@MemAlpha.CX (Riley Williams)
Cc: ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu (Ion Badulescu),
	spstarr@sh0n.net (Shawn Starr),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:29:26 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15AegA-0005Pt-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106142155360.16844-100000@infradead.org> from "Riley Williams" at Jun 14, 2001 09:59:55 PM

> As I see it, if Shawn has permission to freely distribute the specs,
> he can send a copy to Alan Cox for forwarding to the relevant driver
> developers. However, if he has to sign an NDA to get them, they're
> useless...
> 
> Alan: Am I right in assuming this?

It depends on the NDA. Lots of vendors NDA their docs because they give enough
info to cloen the hardware, or explain how to fab the chip, or include personal
details of employees .. and a million other reasons. Many sensible, many quite
daft.

But in my experience you have a better chance of getting a straight answer out
of a politician than intels networking folks. Maybe they have reformed

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-14 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-11 17:37 softirq bugs in pre2 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-11 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-11 19:41   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-11 20:55   ` Alan Cox
2001-06-11 22:42   ` Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T Shawn Starr
2001-06-12 16:34     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-12 17:20       ` Riley Williams
2001-06-13 10:25         ` Ion Badulescu
2001-06-13 12:40           ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-13 17:07             ` James Sutherland
2001-06-14 20:59           ` Riley Williams
2001-06-14 21:10             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 21:14             ` Matthew Jacob
2001-06-14 21:29             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-06-14 21:52               ` Matthew Dharm
2001-06-14 21:58                 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-14 22:03                 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-06-15  2:20             ` Shawn Starr
2001-06-12  2:54   ` softirq bugs in pre2 Andrew Morton
2001-06-11 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <200106112259.RAA20183@asooo.flowerfire.com>
2001-06-12  0:39 ` Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T Shawn Starr

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