From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] SBx81CFC960: embed Fman microcode in the bootloader
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:30:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505C9631.2000903@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120921155810.12ABB203200@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear judge.packham at gmail.com,
>
> In message <1348216335-18105-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com> you wrote:
>> From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
>>
>> Instead of storing the mircocode in a separate flash block simply embed
>> the image as C code array of bytes.
>
> What exactly is the licensing of this code?
It's not GPL-compatible, so linking the code with U-boot and shipping the
binary as one blob is probably a GPL violation. That's why I created the
"QE firmware binary format" and wrote all that code to treat the firmware
as a separate binary blob.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-21 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-20 9:49 [U-Boot] QE firmware/microcode handling Gerlando Falauto
2012-09-20 15:16 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-09-20 15:22 ` Timur Tabi
2012-09-20 18:24 ` Scott Wood
2012-09-20 21:28 ` Timur Tabi
2012-09-21 1:55 ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2012-09-21 8:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] SBx81CFC960: embed Fman microcode in the bootloader judge.packham at gmail.com
2012-09-21 11:32 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-09-21 15:58 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-09-21 16:30 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2012-09-22 9:44 ` Chris Packham
2012-09-24 14:25 ` Timur Tabi
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