I would like to help. I can contribute both a little bit of time, and also a little bit of money. I am a software developer and very comfortable working with C, but my knowledge of kernel development is extremely limited.
Does this repo contain a compilable binary that needs to have bugs fixed and features completed (I'm away from my development machine until Sunday)? On Friday, October 25, 2013 12:44:17 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mullin > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Is the 3.2 kernel SGX driver open source and simply too complex for the > > voluntary community to port to 3.8+ in their spare time (In which case > we > > could start a kickstarter or something to fund someone to work full time > on > > this bug)? Or is the driver proprietary, and the community is simply at > the > > mercy of TI? > > Only the kernel "shim" is open source, well it also uses the in-kernel > framebuffer driver to draw directly into.. > > To give you an idea of what we are dealing with, take a look at this: > https://github.com/RobertCNelson/ti-sdk-pvr > > I try to copy the gpl bits from every sdk release, that a bunch of us > can more easily patch the bits to later kernel releases's. > > In the case of the bone.. The 3.2 bits use the old frame buffer > driver, and with 3.8/3.12 we are using the brand new and shiny kms > driver.. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
