Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-17 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:49:13PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: Some of the developers who were packaging software for the machine pointed out that this license was unfortunate for them, because they were interested in getting GRUB running on the box as well, and of course, GPLv2-only is not a

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Clark
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: Hi, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: The idea of this wiki:

RE: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Bridgman, John
; Bernie Innocenti Subject: RE: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers Hi everyone, I'm sorry for the confusion that's sprung up around this issue. I hope I can get everything clarified -- I think we're all really on the same page here about what would be ideal. On Tue, 2010

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Clark
2010/3/16 Bridgman, John john.bridg...@amd.com: Ahh, that makes sense -- so the relicensing from X11 to GPLv2 already happened, and the proposed relicensing was going to be from GPLv2 to v3. Asking if the code can be licensed back to X11 (allowing use in the X.org project) certainly sounds

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:19:40PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote: 2010/3/16 Bridgman, John john.bridg...@amd.com: Ahh, that makes sense -- so the relicensing from X11 to GPLv2 already happened, and the proposed relicensing was going to be from GPLv2 to v3. Asking if the code can be

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:49:13PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: When we started looking at software for the SiliconMotion hardware (as part of evaluating how free software-friendly a particular machine was), we found a modified driver from the SiliconMotion company that seemed to have some

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:49:13PM -0400, Brett Smith wrote: When we started looking at software for the SiliconMotion hardware (as part of evaluating how free software-friendly a particular machine was), we found

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: The idea of this wiki: http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you have more info or has a technical correction is ok (is on free editing mode) but

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Octavio Rossell
I said the text may contain bugs. This is one of them and I have fixed it. Any Free Licence will work. The main problem here is a performance behaviour. Owain Ainsworth escribió: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: The idea of this wiki:

Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-09 Thread Octavio Rossell
Hi there! I am Octavio Rossell, from Venezuela. I am working in the FSF endorsement of gNewSense-MIPS in the Lemote Yeelong(only free drivers and free bios too), it is possible many of you already know this hardware. For this goal, few things are still needed, but one of them is concerning the