On 19.10.2012 20:47, Leif Lindholm wrote: > I have created a port of GRUB to the ARMv7-A architecture, running on top of > the > U-Boot firmware. The "U-Boot API", created by Rafal Jaworowsky > <r...@semihalf.com>, provides the hardware abstraction layer. Console is > supported on serial port using the termios subsystem. > > This port supports, and indeed relies on, flattened device trees (FDT) - > passed on from firmware, or loaded from a filesystem. My implementation uses > libfdt rather than trying to recycle the existing openfirmware code, and if > possible I would like to keep it that way, and have libfdt included in GRUB. > > libfdt is dual-licensed, GPLv2+/BSD, and the copyright belongs to David > Gibson <d...@au1.ibm.com>. I have a patch against the libfdt included in > http://jdl.com/software/dtc-v1.3.0.tgz that makes it build under GRUB. >
I'd prefer rather without libfdt and share more code with openfirmware since it's similar brain damage. > The U-Boot API is released under GPLv2+ consists of 3 source files. They are > licensed under GPLv2+. The port also contains a crc32 checker I included > from the FreeBSD loader, copyright Gary S. Brown with the statement that > "You may use this program, or code or tables extracted from it, as desired > without restriction.". The crc32 checker is not strictly speaking required, > so could be removed if this poses any problems. > GRUB already has crc32 from libgcrypt. Could you use it? > In addition to this, the port includes libgcc helper functions (aeabi_*) > taken from linux/arch/arm/lib, licensed under GPLv2+. > These should be included at compile time from system libgcc. > My intent is to set up a public repository on launchpad.net containing my > modifications on Monday. Could you send the patch here even if it's not finished? > Do you have any opinions about how I should treat > the third-party software when I do this? > > Regards, > > Leif > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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