Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 19th Mar 2005 05:03 UTC
With the recent push from OpenBSD to open firmwares to redistribution as well as obtaining new documentation for several wireless chipsets it would seem OpenBSD is pushing for other areas to open up as well.
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I've been planning a migration of a modest number of servers and firewalls over to obsd over the past few months. Part of that has been reading mailing lists and archives to get a feel for things.
This whole adaptec thing has really sealed the deal for me. I think a flat our refusal to include the driver in the next obsd distrobution is 100% inline with the obsd mission statement of security and stability. Even if it was included with a warning, someone would use it, and then it would be history that obsd shipped a bad driver (even though it was warned to be bad).
I don't personally have an adaptec raid controller on any of my machines, but will be in the market over the next year for a few new ones. Probably in the range of the 3.8 release timeframe so with any luck this will be resolved and they can be in the list to check out.