[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 4/4] video: add a driver for the bcm2835

Anatolij Gustschin
2012-11-05T18:11:48Z

On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:19:36 -0700
Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:

> On 11/04/2012 11:02 AM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:51:34 -0600
> > Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> >> The firmware running on the bcm2835 SoC's VideoCore CPU manages the
> >> display controller. Add a simple "LCD" drive that communicates with the
> ...
> >> +++ b/drivers/video/bcm2835.c
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
> >> +/*
> >> + * (C) Copyright 2012 Stephen Warren
> >> + *
> >> + * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
> >> + * project.
> >> + *
> >> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> >> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> >> + * version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> >
> > All new code that gets added to U-Boot shall use GPLv3-compatible
> > licensing since there are plans to move later versions of U-Boot to
> > version 3 of the GPL. Therefore we ask for "GPL, either version 2, or
> > (at your option) any later version" phrase.
>
> Um, that doesn't seem possible. Or, is U-Boot simply going to delete any
> GPL-v2-only code? I don't have stats, but I would guess that there is a
> significant amount of GPL-v2-only code, isn't there?

I do not have stats too and do not know the details how it is supposed
to be done. In my understanding switching go GPLv3 it is a long term goal
and we shouldn't make it harder by adding more GPLv3 incompatible code.
Ccing Wolfgang, maybe Wolfgang can tell more here.

> BTW, is this documented anywhere for reference?

It is documented here [1].

Thanks,
Anatolij

[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Notes