From: Brian Waite <linwoes@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] M-Systems Disk on Chip and U-boot
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:49:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36b714c8040902054918d4555f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.0.20040902073144.03a46438@mail.magma.ca>
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:37:27 -0400, Herb Radford <herbr@magma.ca> wrote:
> We're looking at using a DoC on our next product and I was wondering how
> the drivers (obviously supplied by M-Systems) are merged into U-Boot code?
Please be cautious with merging drivers supplied my M-Systems into
U-Boot code. I have not seen thrie drivers, but I am not 100% sure
they are GPL. Including non-GPL code into U-Boot even locally can be
the cause of leagal headaches down the road. You may have to see if
you can reverse engineer the driver, or base the U-Boot driver off of
the kernel driver instead of using the vendor supplied driver. I would
be a bit cautious with this as there is no loadable module interface
loophole in U-Boot to help you avoid the GPL.
Sorry I couldn't be more help technically but I had a few spare cents
here to use.
Thanks
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-02 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-02 11:37 [U-Boot-Users] M-Systems Disk on Chip and U-boot Herb Radford
2004-09-02 12:49 ` Brian Waite [this message]
2004-09-02 17:41 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-09-02 22:36 ` Udi Finkelstein
2004-09-02 22:28 ` Wolfgang Denk
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2004-09-02 12:08 Woodruff, Richard
2004-09-02 14:24 philipv at cam.org
2004-09-02 17:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
2004-09-02 18:51 ` philipv at cam.org
2004-09-02 19:59 ` Wolfgang Denk
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