Jim, It's great that AMD stated that they have agreed to allow use of their VSA code during a teleconference.
Can you ask David Wahl with AMD to release all the source to the VSA including XpressGRAPHICS and XpressAUDIO under GPL or similar license? -Bari Jim Gettys wrote: > On a teleconference on March 2, AMD said that we can have/use any of > their code (e.g. VSA sources, as I understand it) that we need, and that > that code could be incorporated into LinuxBIOS. > > What is more, they said that they had ensured that they owned all the IP > associated with this code since Geode's acquisition by AMD. > > They also said that LinuxBIOS was now considered a peer of any > commercial BIOS and they would support the development. I know from > subsequent mail that AMD's expert on LinuxBIOS in the Opteron group has > spent a day with the Geode team to try to get them up to speed. > > I don't know if AMD has a BIOS of their own; heretofore people have used > commercial BIOS's on Geode. (says me the non-BIOS guy who usually > pushes packets and pixels around). > > AMD, BTW, is one of the corporate sponsors of OLPC. And I meet with > David Wahl of AMD later this week, who is in charge of the group in AMD > who support BIOS developers. > Regards, > - Jim Gettys > OLPC > > > > > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:02 -0600, Bari Ari wrote: > >>Jim, >> >>What's the status of any legal agreements with AMD on using their BIOS >>or VSA source for the OLPC project? >> >>-Bari >> >>Jim Gettys wrote: >> >>>Is located here: >>> >>>http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/Hardware_specification >>> >>>The board has started layout. >>> - Regards, >>> - Jim >> -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
