Adaptec AAC raid support
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Sat Mar 19 13:45:44 PST 2005
Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>What part of the FreeBSD AAC driver is closed, emcumbered, or otherwise
>>non-free?
>
>
> The bits that do management.
>
> Therefore, the bits that let it do what RAID controllers are meant to do.
>
> Can you fully operate an aac(4) card -- 100% of it's abilities, on a
> FreeBSD machine, without using a binary only tool downloaded from the
> Dell web site?
>
> Are you being obtuse on purpose?
>
> Why don't you admit it. FreeBSD relies on non-free binary code for
> Adaptec raid management.
Yes, I admit this. And people thank me all the time for it.
>
> You can't even put it onto a FreeBSD distribution CD.
>
> Why do you keep discussing the free stuff, and distracting everyone
> from the non-free bits?
>
> Is it because you used to work for Adaptec? Are you paid to distract
> people from the non-free code?
No, but you're paranoid and refusing help.
Scott
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