Re: RFC: Capability addition for IEEE 1588

In message <2a41acea0710031306p22d66379oc6575ad9ff5ea99d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jack Vogel" writes
:

When I talked to HP's licensing department, there were a $1k licensefee
for anything IEEE1588 related and their message was that even if
the FreeBSD foundation got such a license, the users would still
have to have one as well if they compiled the source code or some
such nonsense.

What source code was being talked about? I'm not talking about
anything userland, and my driver is just turning on a hardware
feature, I can't imagine HP having anything to do with it, but I
double check internally.

They seem to think they have a patent on doing things that way,
no matter what hardware or software you use.

If Intel chips have hw-support for timestamping, somebody at intel
must have thought about the patent thing.

But as I said, if that can be resolved, it should certainly go in.

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