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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
To: Robert Noland <rnoland-4LXSwLOGEL8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] nouveau: Add basic i2c sensor chip support
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120200256.GA30470@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258747177.31202.5.camel-it3iGQysvyiGwK4wanZbFg@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:59:37PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 18:43 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > This one works better, including some amount of support for the internal 
> > GPU sensor. It seems to give reasonable results on all the cards I have 
> > here.
> 
> So, I obviously have concerns/objections to allowing GPL code into drm.
> Especially, since this code doesn't do anything interesting or
> innovative that I can see.  It just reads registers via i2c... I mean
> how else would you do it?

It contains code cut and paste from nvclock (a GPLed codebase) and uses 
functions that are specific to the Linux kernel. I don't have the legal 
expertise to be able to claim it's not a derived work.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19 22:59 [RFC] nouveau: Add basic i2c sensor chip support Matthew Garrett
     [not found] ` <1258671589-2079-1-git-send-email-mjg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-20 18:43   ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]     ` <20091120184325.GA29058-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-20 19:59       ` Robert Noland
     [not found]         ` <1258747177.31202.5.camel-it3iGQysvyiGwK4wanZbFg@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-20 20:02           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
     [not found]             ` <20091120200256.GA30470-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2009-11-20 20:04               ` Stephane Marchesin
2010-03-10 16:46       ` Francesco Marella

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