From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel?
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:57:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41673772.9010402@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528yagn63x.fsf@topspin.com>
Roland Dreier wrote:
> As for IP, as far as I know, there has been no change to any of the
> bylaws or other members agreements. If there is some specific
> provision that concerns you, please bring it to our attention -- the
> IBTA in general and the IBTA steering committee in general have been
> very supportive of the OpenIB effort. In fact, most of the IBTA
> steering commitee companies (Agilent, HP, IBM, InfiniCon, Intel,
> Mellanox, Sun, Topspin, and Voltaire) have been active participants in
> OpenIB development. I would hope we can resolve any issues relating
> to open source and the Linux kernel.
Read the member agreement :) It -explicitly- does -not- require waiving
of patent claims related to any implementation of IB.
That's different from ATA, SCSI, USB, the list goes on...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-09 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-08 20:22 InfiniBand incompatible with the Linux kernel? Greg KH
2004-10-08 20:38 ` [openib-general] " Ronald G. Minnich
2004-10-08 22:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-10-08 23:13 ` Greg KH
2004-10-08 23:24 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-08 23:26 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-08 23:29 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-08 23:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-08 23:27 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-08 23:34 ` Greg KH
2004-10-09 3:40 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 0:57 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-09 3:09 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 4:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-09 21:11 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-10 19:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 20:33 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-09 11:50 ` Francois Romieu
2004-10-09 20:47 ` Roland Dreier
2004-10-22 23:59 ` Troy Benjegerdes
[not found] ` <6.1.2.0.2.20041008152933.01f671a8@esmail.cup.hp.com>
2004-10-11 18:27 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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