From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35383) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evW0k-0002se-88 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:33:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evW0g-0003Hy-88 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:33:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evW0g-0003Hq-2W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:33:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:33:32 -0600 From: Alex Williamson Message-ID: <20180312163332.6a6b269d@w520.home> In-Reply-To: <20180305085239.GR2872@erzo-ntb> References: <20180228123110.6507-1-kraxel@redhat.com> <20180228123110.6507-8-kraxel@redhat.com> <20180305085239.GR2872@erzo-ntb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 7/9] vfio/display: core & wireup List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Erik Skultety Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org, Kirti Wankhede , Tina Zhang On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:52:39 +0100 Erik Skultety wrote: > > diff --git a/hw/vfio/display.c b/hw/vfio/display.c > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000000..3e997f8a44 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/hw/vfio/display.c > > @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ > > +/* > > + * display support for mdev based vgpu devices > > + * > > + * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2017 > > Just curious here since I don't really know close to nothing about the legal > stuff, but isn't vGPU NVIDIA's trademark - [1,2,3] (especially [1]) would > suggest so. Therefore, I'm just curious whether we can mention this as we > please, especially when this should also work for Intel, which uses a different > name for the technology. On the other hand, grepping through kernel modules, > there's a lot of vGPU misuse in Intel's context, so I guess everything's fine. > Again, I'm just curious since I have no clue about this stuff. > > [1] https://www.geforce.com/en_GB/gfecnt/support/NVIDIA-Legal-Notices > [2] https://trademarks.justia.com/859/42/vgpu-85942337.html > [3] https://trademarks.justia.com/859/42/nvidia-grid-85942341.html IANAL, but the official trademark trackers all seem to indicate "VGPU" was filed for, but abandoned, so perhaps your link [1] above is stale data (note that the copyright date on that is 2014 and the trademark abandonment dates are late 2014/early 2015). I'm not sure that it matters either way though. Thanks, Alex