| [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
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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 Bill Hoggett on 11-Feb-2003 11:42 GMT | In reply to Comment 29 (Rat):
> Thank you for compliments.
You're welcome.
> I am so glad to be in contact with a person of such high moral
> standards, capable of communication with respect and dignity...
What I'm capable of is one thing, and what I think your post deserves is another.
> You know nothing about what you are writing here.
I don't. The question is: do you?
> Documentation is not the point.
It isn't?
> The pint is that cloning a driver, which is already written and complete,
> is nothing when you compare work and effort needed for writing a driver
> from the scratch.
And you have PROOF that this driver is a clone (i.e. a copy) of the Elbox driver, yes? If so, please provide this proof for us all to see. After all, you wouldn't want to be accused of making false and baseless accusations, now would you?
> It took me two minutes to find the complete developer documentation for
> all 3COM 100Mbps NIC chipsets in www.3com.com.
OK. Bad example. However, since Elbox have proved incapable of writing such a driver so far, and since no one else has produced one either, it would seem there may be technical reasons why no 3Com support has been achievable for the Amiga platform.
> Thinking missing... you have got an error in your hardware or software?
Huh? Please try to be coherent. It's so tiresome trying to make sense of random gibberish.
> Do you think these drivers and updates which we receive from Elbox come
> from the blue? Elbox is making available new drivers all the time and
> this proves they care for their developers!
So? They care for the developers _THEY_ can profit from. Period. Since the whole concept of OpenPCI is alient to Elbox policy and marketing, no wonder they vehemently opposed it and got people like you to accuse the authors of IP theft.
>>*THEY* ripped off, like the Picasso96 team. :(
>
> Picasso ripped themselves off by not supporting their users.
Picasso don't support Elbox users because (a) Elbox users are not registered and (b) it would mean supporting Elbox who are the only hardware company who have refused to comply with the clear P96 requirement that any hardware that ships with Picasso96 drivers _must_ be licensed, not to mention the P96 development kit license. Even Amithlon shipped with a P96 license, and they didn't even make hardware. Why do Elbox think they are exempt?
Elbox apologists seem to be everywhere, like all those who said anyone who exposed their policy of hiding trojans in their software must be a pirate. Now everyone who produces a rival product is a pirate, be it software or hardware.
Elbox may have done a lot for the Amiga in being the first to develop and supply PCI solutions, and they may have been the best at supporting their solutions too, but that doesn't change the fact that their policies stink of dishonesty and greed. You think they care about anyone in the Amiga community or the Amiga platform itself? Bollox. Elbox only care about Elbox. The minute they lose their lead as hardware expansion providers they will drop it like a hot potato, and stick two fingers up at any of their users who complain about their loyalty being betrayed. |
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