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Subject: Re: [RFC] Atmel-supplied hardware headers for AT91RM9200 SoC
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> No reason to use the horror it is as-is.  Beein hardware description they
> won't change ever except for additions, so just clean the mess up into
> somethign nice and submit them.  You could have done so in the time you
> spent arguing on linux-arm-kernel already.

Or written a perl script to reprocess them into something saner for that
matter. The licensing does look problematic - perhaps Atmel will be
happy to dual license them (see the many BSD bits of code that are in
kernel and say
things like "or at your option you may use the GNU Public License
version 2 or
later" and similar.