From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:52:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:51:56 -0400 Received: from smtp3.cern.ch ([137.138.131.164]:3060 "EHLO smtp3.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:51:48 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Qlogic/FC firmware In-Reply-To: <20010821.055856.08326920.davem@redhat.com> <20010821.063900.112292626.davem@redhat.com> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 21 Aug 2001 15:51:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: "David S. Miller"'s message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:39:00 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "David" == David S Miller writes: David> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 21 Aug 2001 David> 15:31:05 +0200 > Alan did after I pointed out to him that it was incompatible > with the GPL (BSD license with advertisement clause). Really > hard to fix unless you get QLogic to change the license for > you. David> And what about the Qlogic,ISP firmware in the tree too? Those David> have no copyright notice, but I think this is due to omission. David> The same identical firmware code in Matt Jacob's David> isp_dist.tar.gz driver has the BSD license at the top of every David> firmware file. I have no idea where that firmware comes from. Since QLogic has in fact re-released some of their firmware images under the GPL I have no reason to believe images without copyright messages are in violation of the BSD license. If you have evidence that the isp driver ships with firmware thats in violation of the GPL, then please remove it as well. David> You might as well remove all of these drivers in whole, as they David> are basically non-functional without the accompanying firmware. So you are suggesting that we keep violating the GPL in order to help out people nuking their own flash by mistake? The much cleaner way to solve this problem is to write a user space tool to upgrade the image in the flash ram on the QL with your latest favorite image found at www.qlogic.com. It's a 128KB image, you can write directly to the flash in two banks by setting the read/write bit and setting the 2nd bank bit for the last 64KB. Jes