From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anatolij Gustschin Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:11:48 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2 4/4] video: add a driver for the bcm2835 In-Reply-To: <5097F528.7060600@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1350622294-374-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <1350622294-374-4-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <20121104190224.64768bc7@wker> <5097F528.7060600@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <20121105191148.6ce0b58e@wker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:19:36 -0700 Stephen Warren wrote: > On 11/04/2012 11:02 AM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:51:34 -0600 > > Stephen Warren 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