OK, so Which bsd and which driver?

[gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov]

Alright, now that I've thrown away all code from the Linux 3com
driver, which of the 5 million bsd variations supports modern 3com
hardware?  And, is it possible to know which of the incoherent driver
names they seem to use does the 3com support?

Some Freebsd's apparently scatter support for various 3com cards
across various drivers- very nice.  Netbsd asserts that it supports
3com hardware too- but won't tell you the actual files that implement
it.  Heaven only knows what OpenBSD does.

Joking aside, Joel, please don't take this the wrong way- but this
kind of thing is EXTREMELY frustrating.  I really wish these licensing
issues were made more plain.  A recursive grep for GPL in the rtems
source tree didn't turn up any general warnings about inclusion of GPL
code in RTEMS- only a couple ancient boilerplate references here and
there.  Instead of wasting 2 days, I could have easily wasted a couple
weeks getting the Linux 3com driver ported, working and efficient- and
then have to throw it out due to the AFAICT essentially undocumented
no-GPL requirement.  Sure, I could use it in-house, which I probably
would, but thats not helping the RTEMS community any.

So, I'm grumpy today, but I'll get over it.

Gregm