[News] OpenPCI 1.0 and OpenPCI 8139 Device 1.0 released | ANN.lu |
Posted on 09-Feb-2003 19:31 GMT by Benjamin Vernoux (Titan) (Edited on 2003-02-09 23:52:34 GMT by Christophe Decanini) | 41 comments View flat View list |
On the OpenPCI Project WWW Page (in English only):
OpenPCI library 1.0 released
openpci_8139.device 1.0 released (Fast Ethernet(10/100Mb) driver)
The OpenPCI library is a wrapper for use lot of PCI Bus on :
Amiga/Amithlon/Pegasos (GrexA1200/A4000 (require cybpci.library), Prometheus (require prometheus.library v2.x), Amithlon (require powerpci.library v1.76), Pegasos (require Pegasos+MorphOS)).
The OpenPCI library 1.0 is officialy released for public,
with a Fast Ethernet (10/100Mb) driver :
openpci_8139.device v1.0 is for Realtek RTL8139 B/C/D/E chipset.
Tested with Miami/MiamiDX.
Only the 68k version of OpenPCI library is released but soon the native PPC MOS version will be available with native MOS PPC 8139 device.
OpenPCI Project WWW Page (in English only)
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Posted by Rat on 10-Feb-2003 20:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (Benjamin Vernoux): >I think you haven't understand the concept of an OpenPCI API,
>my drivers are available and FREE for users.
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>And for reply to your "insult" saying i have copied Mediator
>driver it's totally wrong !!.
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>For all my drivers i use datasheets and all driver code is
>my own code.
If you started writing PCI drivers ON YOUR OWN so why are you writing them only to the chipsets to which Elbox already made them available?
If you were writing a FastEthernet driver, why haven't you done it for the 3COM FastEthernet chipset, but for RTL 8139? Elbox made drivers for Mediator for RTL 8139 available over a year ago!
The only drivers to sound cards which you are planning are SB128 and FM801 drivers. These chipsets are already supported in Mediator!
It looks like Elbox were right:
You signed NDA with them and you got the MediatorSDK developer's documentation for writing new drivers for Mediator.
But what you are doing? Instead of writing any NEW drivers you are trying to spread away the current Mediator drivers to other PCI solutions.
Why are you wondering Elbox think you are a thief?
Think about the situation if you were an AmigaOS4 developer.
You would sign an NDA and get developer's materials. Then, when the AmigaOS4 is already on sale, you would announce you are writing another AmigaOS4, but your own.
The point would be that your OpenAmigaOS4 would run in AmigaOne and in Pegasos. And, sure, you would give away OpenAmigaOS4 for free for Pegasos users.
Amiga Inc. and Hyperion would give you a fortune for that ;-) |
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