hpasm driver status

[Rick Flower]

Daniel Clark wrote:
> I've searched the list from time to time on this topic. Has anyone been
> successful in contacting the author of the the hapsm package,
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/? His packages were target towards FreeBSD
> 5 and FreeBSD 6. With the recent release of the version 8, of the OS, I'm
> seriously wondering what the direction is for proliant driver support. I
> tried contacting the author a few weeks ago, with no response. From a legal
> point of view, what would it take get an actual port from HP? Is it feasible
> for a survey form to be setup, to attain interest? I'd be willing to make a
> donation to the effort, if this is something that we can make happen.
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I wonder whether it might be possible to reverse engineer the code -- 
not sure if that's legal
or not with regards to HP -- who seems to have lost interest.. I doubt 
it would take them more
than 1 hour to rebuild the requisite code to the newer versions of 
FreeBSD (assuming they
had a machine available)..