Re: <rant> Vendors and kernel driver source that will not compile with Debian </rant>
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:32:31 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>thus it's certainly not GPLed, because including a binary blob
>contradicts the GPL.
Well they included the GPL license in the archive of their shim driver source.
GPL, C files to compile, Library file to be included in the compile. Seems to
be the vendor and the Linux community are both being stubborn about the
situation.
>Anyway, The MegaRAID ATA133 I saw was software raid only and the actual
>controllers could be used with the kernel piix driver.
Yes, it is a software RAID device driver, utility, etc... Yes it comes up as a
standard IDE controller but it does not see the mirror configured by the BIOS
on the controller w/o the LSI driver, thus only writes to one of the two
physical drives.
Why mirror at the higher level if the mass storage controller driver can do the
work and make the file system drivers think they are talking to a simple disk
drive?
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
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