Adaptec AAC raid support

Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org
Sat Mar 19 12:43:11 PST 2005


> It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that 
> contains full source.  You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable,
> so I offered to help.  That has nothing to do with binary apps.

From

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/aaccli

    Sources for ports/sysutils/aaccli
    Sorry, did not find the sources for ports/sysutils/aaccli

No source!

Let's look closer

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/aaccli/Makefile

    MASTER_SITES=		http://download.adaptec.com/raid/ccu/freebsd/
    DISTNAME=		5400s_fbsd_cli_v10
    EXTRACT_SUFX=		.zip

    ...

    RESTRICTED=		"May not be redistributed in binary form"
    NO_CDROM=		yes

So there is a file somewhere that is a .zip file.  It may not be put
onto the official FreeBSD CDs (so obviously not OpenBSD CDs either)

That's not really free is it.

Let's look closer

% ftp http://download.adaptec.com/raid/ccu/freebsd/5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
Trying 216.200.68.139...
Requesting http://download.adaptec.com/raid/ccu/freebsd/5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
100% |************************************************************|   565 KB    00:03    
Successfully retrieved file.
% unzip 5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
Archive:  5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip
  inflating: TRANS.TBL               
  inflating: aaccli-1.0_0.tgz        
% tar xvfz aaccli-1.0_0.tgz
+CONTENTS
+COMMENT
+DESC
+POST-INSTALL
bin/aaccli
% file bin/aaccli
bin/aaccli: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, for FreeBSD 4.4, statically linked, not stripped


That's a binary.  Where is the source?


Why do you keep talking about some Management binary?


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