[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4 v4] spi: Add Cadence QSPI DM driver used by SoCFPGA

Marek Vasut
2016-01-14T02:17:00Z

On Monday, December 08, 2014 at 09:14:29 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On 06.12.2014 13:56, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Saturday, November 08, 2014 at 01:18:31 PM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> >> On 07.11.2014 20:56, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> >>> +CC: Graham Moore
> >>>
> >>> On 11/07/2014 09:26 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:
> >>>> Hi Dinh, Hi Vince!
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>>> Could we not just use a "plain" GPL (v2) license here as well.
> >>>> Especially since the other files in this driver are just normal GPL
> >>>> files.
> >>>>
> >>>> Comments welcome.
> >>>
> >>> Graham recent posted to lkml a patch series for QSPI that has a plain
> >>> GPLv2.
> >>>
> >>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141417788514196&w=2
> >>
> >> Interesting. Thanks for this info. But what is the implication of this
> >> new plain GPLv2'ed driver code to the current code in this patch (based
> >> on your Rocketboard.org version)?
> >>
> >> Frankly, I really don't have time and motivation to re-port this new
> >> Linux version to U-Boot to get the GPLv2 version. How could we solve
> >> this? Can you re-release this code under this new license (header)?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have this one still marked as "Open Issue", any news here ?
>
> Not from my side I'm afraid. Perhaps somebody from Altera (Dinh,
> Graham?) could chime in and let us know, if it would be possible to
> license the current QSPI file under GPL?

Is anyone planning to take up the task of porting the V10 of the QSPI driver
into U-Boot to replace the current horror ? ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut