Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-06-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
gt; property rights How do you reason about binary-only software fulfilling the goal of copyright? How does it deliver its part of the copyright deal with society if, even after it goes public domain, still nobody can create derived works from it because the source code remains

Re: how about mutual compatibility between Linux's GPLv2 and GPLv3?

2007-07-01 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jun 28, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, let's narrow the scenario to: tivoized machine downloads binary >> from protected site, refrains from downloading sources that it could

Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans?

2013-11-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
.0. The shorter cycle towards 3.20, which would make the 2 cycles towards 4.0 shorter than two usual cycles, may help relieve some of the pressure to get features into 3.19, since the merge window for 4.0 won't be that far off. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You

missing sources for generated files in drivers/gpu/drm/msm

2013-10-30 Thread Alexandre Oliva
from the various well-known blobs within the firmware/ subtree and the assorted blobs-disguised-as-sources that still often pop up in drivers/staging? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http

[3.13-rc regression] Unbreak Loongson2 and r4k-generic flush icache range

2014-01-13 Thread Alexandre Oliva
too. This patch enabled my Yeeloong to boot up successfully a 3.13-rc kernel for the first time, after a long git bisect session. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Oliva --- arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c

Re: [3.13-rc regression] Unbreak Loongson2 and r4k-generic flush icache range

2014-01-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
s >> might face other problems when presented with Loongson2-specific icache >> flush code too. This patch enabled my Yeeloong to boot up successfully >> a 3.13-rc kernel for the first time, after a long git bisect session. >> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Oliva >Fix

Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: loongson2_cpufreq: don't declare local variable as static

2014-04-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
info's output, and freezing shortly thereafter. > - static struct clk *cpuclk; > + struct clk *cpuclk; -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighterhttp://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America

Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: loongson2_cpufreq: don't declare local variable as static

2014-04-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Apr 3, 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 3 April 2014 18:10, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> FWIW, the same mistake is present in at32. > I will check others as well now :) Thanks! >> Reverting all the changes to loongson2_cpufreq.c in 652ed95d5fa makes >> cpufre

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-05-26 Thread Alexandre Oliva
mem_, bwlq, type) + __BUILD_IOPORT_PFX(, bwlq, type, USE_IO_BARRIER_FOR_NON_MEM_OUT) \ + __BUILD_IOPORT_PFX(__mem_, bwlq, type, 2) BUILDIO_IOPORT(b, u8) BUILDIO_IOPORT(w, u16) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! F

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 8, 2019, Tom Li wrote: > found Alexandre Oliva has stopped maintaining his tree ?!? I still merge and tag every one of Torvalds' and Greg KH's releases into the loongson-community tree, resolving trivial conflicts and trying to verify that it at least builds and passes a smoke t

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-02-11 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ng, printing > even a single line on the console is required a full screen redraw via memory- That doesn't seem to explain even a quiet boot up taking several times longer than 4.19, and package installation over an ethernet connection (thus not using the console) also taking several times longer. -- Alex

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-03-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Mar 7, 2019, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:41:01AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Feb 17, 2019, "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: >> >> > Is there an MMIO completion barrier missing there somewhere by any chance >> >

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-03-07 Thread Alexandre Oliva
n !barrier, but you already knew that. Did you mean to ask what war_io_reorder_wmb expand to, or whether there are other uses of war_io_reorder_wmb, or what? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engin

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
. Thanks. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain EngineerFree Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás-GNUChe

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Do you happen to know how far back it might be needed? > I'll continue working on upstreaming these out-of-tree drivers as my personal > project. I hope you'll be able to use a fully-functional machine with the > mainline > kernel soon, my current target is Linux 5.3. Thanks! -- Alex

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
for 24 hours non-stop, but... I'm curious as to what obstacles you ran into. It's such a reproducible problem for me that I can't see how bisecting it might be difficult. Or were by any chance you talking about the reboot/shutdown problem then? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.o

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-02-17 Thread Alexandre Oliva
s there, but I haven't checked whether it was there before the patch. Do you suggest any way to tell whether it had the intended effect? -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: [RFC] On the Current Troubles of Mainlining Loongson Platform Drivers

2019-03-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
OPORT_PFX(, bwlq, type, 0) \ + __BUILD_IOPORT_PFX(__mem_, bwlq, type, 1) BUILDIO_IOPORT(b, u8) BUILDIO_IOPORT(w, u16) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer

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