Which driver are you referring to, AppleRTL8169Ethernet or AppleACPIPlatform?
AppleACPIPlatform is of course crucial to the maintenance of a free and
open source platform, and Darwin-8 cannot be classified as such without
it at this time.
In such a case, dedicated FOSS users will be forced to retreat to
Darwin-7 or earlier until the situation is remedied either by release
of the code, or by its replacement.
What about XNU? We are mired at Darwin-8.3 at this time. I have
posted a solution to the alleged problems.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9813956&forum_id=6042http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9812396&forum_id=6042
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
On 6 Jun, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In general, we prefer to release all our drivers as open source.
> However, in some cases -- such as this one -- there are intellectual
> property issues that preclude that. We regret the inconvenience.
>
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> should be submitted as bug reports:
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> http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/
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