From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263681AbTKRORw (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:17:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263688AbTKRORw (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:17:52 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:12419 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263681AbTKRORu (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:17:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:19:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Jeff Garzik cc: Pontus Fuchs , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper In-Reply-To: <3FBA25CD.5020708@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <1069153340.2200.28.camel@dhcp-225.mlm.tactel.se> <3FBA25CD.5020708@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Pontus Fuchs wrote: > > Please! I don't want to start a flamewar if this is a good thing to do. > > I'm just trying to scratch my own itch and I doubt that this project > > changes the way Broadcom treats Linux users. > > > Then help us reverse engineer the driver :) > > Jeff Yes! Entirely! The BIG advantage of the NDIS-6 driver is the established interface makes it possible to readily reverse-engineer it, i.e., find out how it works. Many of the network drivers use the same hardware core (ne). It's the extra stuff like the transciever interface that the NDIS drivers will expose. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.