From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henryp@broadcom.com (Henry Ptasinski) Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 15:42:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH][WAS:bcmai,axi] bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver In-Reply-To: <4DC5805C.2010202@hauke-m.de> References: <1304632783-8781-1-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com> <4DC56FB9.5000208@hauke-m.de> <4DC57425.30206@hauke-m.de> <4DC5805C.2010202@hauke-m.de> Message-ID: <20110507224223.GA2537@broadcom.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > On 05/07/2011 06:51 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: > > 2011/5/7 Hauke Mehrtens : > >> There is a Ethernet core used on embedded devices with this bus and > >> George wrote a driver for the first version of this bus implementation, > >> he send to the ML. Most user will use this with some wireless devices so > >> I would add linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org. Why does ssb uses netdev ML? > > > > Thanks, I didn't know about this ethernet driver. Have to check it! > > Where was this published? Do you have a thread name? > > I think he haven't send it to the mailing list, there is a link [0] in > some Ticket [1] at OpenWrt. This driver was derived from source code > Braodcom have published, but not under a GPL compatible license. It will > be nice if Braodcom would allow us to publish a driver under the terms > of the GPL for the Ethernet core based on their driver, without writing > a full spec of the driver like it was done for b43. ... > > [0] http://www.znau.edu.ua/temp/asus-rt-n16/openwrt-bcm4716-README.txt > [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6580#comment All of of the patches listed in [0] appear to contain GPL-licensed code. Can you provide a pointer to the ethernet driver that you think is not under a GPL-compatible license? Thanks, --- Henry Ptasinski henryp at broadcom.com