Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd

Erik Andersen
2003-07-22T21:24:24Z

On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 04:56:29PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > I was reading over your libata driver yesterday. Certainly a lot
> > cleaner than the cam stuff IMHO. Given the info made available
> > via the Promise driver, I expect that I could get an initial
> > libata host adaptor driver hacked together in short order. After
> > all, the Intel one is just 400 lines. So unless you (or anyone
> > else) have already started or would prefer to do the honors,
> > I'll try to hack something together this evening,
>
> Shoot, that would be great ;-)

K, I'll give it a try.

> On a legal note, I would prefer that completely new drivers (i.e. no
> copied code from other sources) be licensing in the same way as
> libata.c. Maintainer's preference in the end, of course, but I would
> like to strongly encourage following libata.c's example ;-)

By that I assume you mean osl-1.1 like libata.c, rather than GPL
like ata_piix.c.... I expect I may be copying bits and pieces
from the Promise driver though. Certainly I'd like to use as
much of their header files as seems practical. So it may very
well need to stay GPL'd. But I'll see what I can do.

> I have a TX2 board, too, so I can test your stuff as well.

Cool. I have a TX2 as well. Hope I don't fry it... :)

-Erik

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