Question on S3 on evergreen

2011-10-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:04 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Xavier Bestel  
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:54 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
> >> [...] I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms()
> >> functions from linux to CE.
> >
> > I imagine you already have checked with your company's lawyers, but if I
> > understand correctly that means your drivers will be distributed under
> > the GPL ?
> 
> All the GPU driver code is licensed under MIT.

Oh, I thought "linux" meant "kernel", not "X11".

Xav



Question on S3 on evergreen

2011-10-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:54 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
> [...] I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms()
> functions from linux to CE. 

I imagine you already have checked with your company's lawyers, but if I
understand correctly that means your drivers will be distributed under
the GPL ?

Thanks,
Xav



Re: Question on S3 on evergreen

2011-10-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi,

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:54 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
 [...] I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms()
 functions from linux to CE. 

I imagine you already have checked with your company's lawyers, but if I
understand correctly that means your drivers will be distributed under
the GPL ?

Thanks,
Xav

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Re: Question on S3 on evergreen

2011-10-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:04 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote:
  Hi,
 
  On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:54 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
  [...] I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms()
  functions from linux to CE.
 
  I imagine you already have checked with your company's lawyers, but if I
  understand correctly that means your drivers will be distributed under
  the GPL ?
 
 All the GPU driver code is licensed under MIT.

Oh, I thought linux meant kernel, not X11.

Xav

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Re: [git pull] drm fixes

2011-03-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 25 mars 2011 à 16:44 +0100, Peter Stuge a écrit :
 Michel Dänzer wrote:
  You won't have any trouble finding plenty of examples of newcomers
  having a better experience, as most of them thankfully don't come in
  with such a bad attitude and conduct.
 
 To a bystander it would seem that Ilija has great attitude and conduct.

And to another bystander he looked a bit autistic.

Xav

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Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 22 d?cembre 2010 ? 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a ?crit :
> It is 
> not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate 
> proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for 
> that.

I think you can remove the word "economically" from your sentence (or
replace it with e.g. "technically"), and it's all the more true.

Xav



Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 à 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a écrit :
 It is 
 not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate 
 proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for 
 that.

I think you can remove the word economically from your sentence (or
replace it with e.g. technically), and it's all the more true.

Xav

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Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component

2010-07-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 19:07 +0700, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> > What potential? there are maybe 6 players on the ARM graphics scene
> >
> > ...
> > Nvidia - well we know their position will never change.
> >   
> Never say never.  I have every reason to believe that Nvidia would 
> respond to market demand.

Could you share those interesting reasons with us ?

Xav




Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component

2010-07-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 19:07 +0700, C. Bergström wrote:
 Dave Airlie wrote:
  What potential? there are maybe 6 players on the ARM graphics scene
 
  ...
  Nvidia - well we know their position will never change.

 Never say never.  I have every reason to believe that Nvidia would 
 respond to market demand.

Could you share those interesting reasons with us ?

Xav


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