Re: Sun4c interrupt controller - Sun4d relevance

[Chris Newport <crn@netunix.com>]

David Miller wrote:

>Tom is absolutely right, the situation is questionable at best,
>so we have to take the safe course of action and now not accept
>contributions from those who have gone so far as to publicly
>state that they've read the Solaris code and thus are tainted.
>
>It's unfortunate, but really there is no other reasonable course
>of action at this point, sorry :-/
>  
>
Whilst I understand your reaction on this one I believe that you are 
being rather harsh on both Mark and Sun.

Would it not be wiser to clarify the conditions under which Sun have  
generously released this information as a reference resource and ask for 
clarification if necessary.

Sun are making great efforts to open up their code and it seems rather 
churlish to imply possible bad faith where none has been shown to exist. 
There can be no harm in asking for clarification and/or permission to 
use this material.