On 01/27/2016 05:17 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: > > > On 01/25/2016 07:11 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: >> On 01/25/2016 03:45 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: >>> This patchset is based on the patchset by Leif Lindholm [1] >>> >>> 'ARM Server Base Boot Requirements' [2] mention SPCR >>> (Serial Port Console Redirection Table) [3] as a mandatory >>> ACPI table that specifies the configuration of serial console. >>> >>> Licensing concerns have prevented implementing it in the past, but as of >>> 10 August 2015, these tables have both been released also under >>> OWF 1.0 [4]. >> >> This license has a patent retaliation provision, which makes it >> incompatible with GPLv2. >> >> *If the license applies to this code*, then this patch set does not >> meet the criteria for submission. > > The license applies not to this code but to the document describing the > tables.
Just for the record, the SPCR table struct definition has been part of the Linux kernel since at least commit b24aad44 on 2009-07-24 (line 1112 of include/acpi/actbl2.h) -- or so git blame tells me. -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. [email protected] -----------------------------------
