Martin Bochnig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> much of what's in there has to go through the normal review processes
>> (design review, code review, ARC review, license review, etc.) before
>> it could go into the Nevada gates used to build the Sun distros.
>>
>> --
>> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>
>
> You mean it is better to have an ARC-reviewed version of dummy_drv.so
> (or BSD's wsfb_drv.so) , than to have accellerated native Xorg drivers
> and Mesa?
No. I never said anything remotely like that. I never said anything
was wrong with your drivers, or that there was any reason that I knew of
that they would be unacceptable to include. Don't imagine fights that
aren't there.
> Licensing: It cannot be the true reason, because you ship the very
> same drivers, servers and libs an x86 already (ati, radeonhd, mga,
> glint).
Then the license review will be pretty much automatic for it - I didn't
say there was a licensing problem for the Xorg drivers - I was acutally
thinking more of the other sources you've added to the FOX gate, from
sources other than X.Org, when I wrote about needing license review.
Review is not rejection, just double checking to make sure it's okay.
> But for all the other drivers except sunffb this
> argument is completely invalid.
There is no argument. I never said that anything would fail review,
would have problems, was not licensed correctly, was unacceptable, or
anything of the sort. I only said it would need to be verified before
Sun would include it in a distro it builds and ships. For the drivers
from X.Org, this review will likely take a few minutes for each and mostly
involve making sure all the copyright and license notices are correctly
included in the COPYING file used to generate the package copyright
file. This has nothing to do with why Sun would decide to include or
not include any given driver.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
