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From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon)
To: wje@fir.esd.sgi.com (William J. Earl)
Cc: knobi@munich.sgi.com, alambie@wellington.sgi.com,
	shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: init=/bin/sh and serial devices
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:40:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199704091840.LAA21362@yon.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199704091831.LAA27695@fir.esd.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Apr 9, 97 11:31:04 am

:
:Martin Knoblauch writes:
:...
: >  this brings up the question: do we already have drivers for
: > the textport? Not to speak of an X-Server? How are we (SGI)
: > going to handle this? As far as I know we never published
: > the hardware dependent parts on the X11 distribution, did we?
:...
:
:    With management authorization, I provided the technical details
:for the graphics hardware (and all the other Indy hardware) to David
:Miller, who I believe got a textport driver working.
:

Also, the agreement we signed with David was that all the Linux work
including those low level drivers will be released under the GPL
i.e. anyone who cares would be able to look at these driver sources.

-- 
Peace, Ariel

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From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon)
To: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.esd.sgi.com>
Cc: knobi@munich.sgi.com, alambie@wellington.sgi.com,
	shaver@neon.ingenia.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: init=/bin/sh and serial devices
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:40:47 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199704091840.LAA21362@yon.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19970409184047.SMkQBullMG3Hzwdl3b9dJ-db7kbEFjfiFcqIvAMVJfs@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199704091831.LAA27695@fir.esd.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Apr 9, 97 11:31:04 am

:
:Martin Knoblauch writes:
:...
: >  this brings up the question: do we already have drivers for
: > the textport? Not to speak of an X-Server? How are we (SGI)
: > going to handle this? As far as I know we never published
: > the hardware dependent parts on the X11 distribution, did we?
:...
:
:    With management authorization, I provided the technical details
:for the graphics hardware (and all the other Indy hardware) to David
:Miller, who I believe got a textport driver working.
:

Also, the agreement we signed with David was that all the Linux work
including those low level drivers will be released under the GPL
i.e. anyone who cares would be able to look at these driver sources.

-- 
Peace, Ariel

  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-09 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-09  2:09 init=/bin/sh and serial devices Mike Shaver
1997-04-09 14:22 ` Alistair Lambie
     [not found]   ` <alambie>
1997-04-09 14:29     ` Alistair Lambie
1997-04-09 14:31     ` Alistair Lambie
1997-04-09 14:24 ` Alistair Lambie
1997-04-09  4:29   ` Alex deVries
1997-04-09 18:46     ` Ariel Faigon
1997-04-09 18:46       ` Ariel Faigon
1997-04-09  7:06   ` Martin Knoblauch
1997-04-09 18:31     ` William J. Earl
1997-04-09 18:40       ` Ariel Faigon [this message]
1997-04-09 18:40         ` Ariel Faigon
1997-04-09 19:30     ` Alistair Lambie
1997-04-14  8:17     ` David S. Miller
1997-04-14 18:05       ` William J. Earl
1997-04-15  2:09         ` David S. Miller
1997-04-18 22:35           ` Alistair Lambie
1997-04-18 22:35             ` Alistair Lambie

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