Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread David Rusling
Alan, I still stand by my assertion that educating companies as to the realities and philosophies of open source is better than threatening them. Your analogy of open source as a standard, a practical de facto standard written in a programming language is a good one.Forking code (

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2010-12-23 Thread Alan Cox
> way to behave. The best way to get companies to change their behaviour is > to find them and support them. Making threatening GPL noises in email does > not help them in any way. I would disagree based on years of history. The best way to get a company to change behaviour is for a situati

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2010-12-23 Thread Alan Cox
> The GPLv2 is written such that the "if you're interfacing the kernel > or compiler you don't need to opensource that bit with your app" I would suggest you re-read the license. It says nothing of the sort. Indeed the gcc compiler licensing for the compiler support library is actually rather care

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2010-12-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:18:21AM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > Ownership of the code is dependent on who licensed it. I do not think > Linaro need be so concerned over opensourcing or reimplementing > drivers. The fact that the kernel driver is open source as it is, and > this is by far the most im

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread David Rusling
Alan, I still stand by my assertion that educating companies as to the realities and philosophies of open source is better than threatening them. Your analogy of open source as a standard, a practical de facto standard written in a programming language is a good one.Forking code (

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread Alan Cox
> way to behave. The best way to get companies to change their behaviour is > to find them and support them. Making threatening GPL noises in email does > not help them in any way. I would disagree based on years of history. The best way to get a company to change behaviour is for a situati

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread Alan Cox
> The GPLv2 is written such that the "if you're interfacing the kernel > or compiler you don't need to opensource that bit with your app" I would suggest you re-read the license. It says nothing of the sort. Indeed the gcc compiler licensing for the compiler support library is actually rather care

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:18:21AM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: > Ownership of the code is dependent on who licensed it. I do not think > Linaro need be so concerned over opensourcing or reimplementing > drivers. The fact that the kernel driver is open source as it is, and > this is by far the most im

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread Dave Airlie
> > I'm not advocating that closed source drivers be included in the > kernel, but IMHO, > having an open kernel-space driver would also help the reverse engineering > process at the same time as allowing common users as well as developers to > use and test any 3D applications -don't forget that 3D

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 22 d?cembre 2010 ? 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a ?crit : > It is > not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate > proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for > that. I think you can remove the word "economically" from your sentence (or

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2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 21:22, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Having accommodations in the kernel for proprietary drivers is not a > mutual benefit anymore. ?That might be hard to understand from your > point of view, but the incentives in the Open Source communities aren't > based on commercial results. DIS

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> it would take until a beta driver appears? 1 year? 2 years? And what will > happen > in the meantime? plainly.some other company will take over the market, and sell products with open drivers available. in meantime arm devices can still be used for i.e. dataloggers, especially without linux su

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2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski > wrote: >>> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to >>> be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source >>> doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. >> >> i agree with it full

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2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to >> be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source >> doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. > > i agree with it fully, and to

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to > be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source > doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. i agree with it fully, and to support this claim i want to remind the simple rule of capital acc

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2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mercredi 22 d?cembre 2010 ? 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a ?crit : > > It is > > not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate > > proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for > > that. > > I think you

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 à 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a écrit : > > It is > > not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate > > proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for > > that. > > I think you

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 à 15:29 -0500, Nicolas Pitre a écrit : > It is > not economically viable for the Open Source community to accommodate > proprietary drivers, irrespective of how loud you might advocate for > that. I think you can remove the word "economically" from your sentence (or

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 22 December 2010 21:22, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Having accommodations in the kernel for proprietary drivers is not a > > mutual benefit anymore. ?That might be hard to understand from your > > point of view, but the incentives in the Open

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski > wrote: > >> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to > >> be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source > >> doesn't _require_ th

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2010-12-22 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 22 December 2010 09:51, Matt Sealey wrote: >> Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. >> >> In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* >> Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Tom Gall wrote: > The very important part of this whole discussion is getting arm Linux and it's > 3d driver situation so it TOO is the best. > > Right now it's not and pointing to other elements of the system and saying > "it's great" is besides the point. My whole point, i

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 09:51, Matt Sealey wrote: > Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. > > In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* > Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it took > them a year to get to this point). It appears that this discus

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> you have two pieces of code, a userspace 3D *driver* (not >> application), and a kernel driver talking to the hw, if the userspace >> 3D driver cannot exist without the kernel driver, it could very well >> be considered a deriva

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
it would take until a beta driver appears? 1 year? 2 years? And what will happen in the meantime? plainly.some other company will take over the market, and sell products with open drivers available. in meantime arm devices can still be used for i.e. dataloggers, especially without linux suppor

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 22 December 2010 21:22, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Having accommodations in the kernel for proprietary drivers is not a > > mutual benefit anymore.  That might be hard to understand from your > > point of view, but the incentives in the Open

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. i agree with it fully, and to support

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, David Rusling wrote: > Now for a bit of a rant. Personally, I have a deep and abiding > respect for open source (for me, it's the key social invention of the > internet age), however I also recognise that it would not exist > without companies using open source as pa

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Dave Airlie
> > I'm not advocating that closed source drivers be included in the > kernel, but IMHO, > having an open kernel-space driver would also help the reverse engineering > process at the same time as allowing common users as well as developers to > use and test any 3D applications -don't forget that 3D

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread David Rusling
Konstantinos, thanks, I agree with your thoughts. My approach has been to accept small steps in the right direction and encourage reasoned discussion. I also think that Linaro's main function is as a place where all the moving parts can collaborate.Right now, the GPU 'problem' is

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 21:22, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Having accommodations in the kernel for proprietary drivers is not a > mutual benefit anymore.  That might be hard to understand from your > point of view, but the incentives in the Open Source communities aren't > based on commercial results. DIS

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, David Rusling wrote: > >> ? ? ? Now for a bit of a rant. ?Personally, I have a deep and abiding >> respect for open source (for me, it's the key social invention of the >> internet age), however I also recognise that it

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2010-12-22 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:17:40 Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski > wrote: > >> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to > >> be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source > >> doesn't _require_ th

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 20:39, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to >> be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source >> doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. > > i agree with it fully, and to

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
So to say that the corporate world might need to consider Open Source to be competitive and survive, but the reverse is not true i.e. Open Source doesn't _require_ the corporate world to survive. i agree with it fully, and to support this claim i want to remind the simple rule of capital accumul

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Tom Gall
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, David Rusling wrote: > >>       Now for a bit of a rant.  Personally, I have a deep and abiding >> respect for open source (for me, it's the key social invention of the >> internet age), however I also recognise that it

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 22 December 2010 09:51, Matt Sealey wrote: >> Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. >> >> In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* >> Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Tom Gall wrote: > The very important part of this whole discussion is getting arm Linux and it's > 3d driver situation so it TOO is the best. > > Right now it's not and pointing to other elements of the system and saying > "it's great" is besides the point. My whole point, i

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, David Rusling wrote: > Now for a bit of a rant. Personally, I have a deep and abiding > respect for open source (for me, it's the key social invention of the > internet age), however I also recognise that it would not exist > without companies using open source as pa

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread David Rusling
Konstantinos, thanks, I agree with your thoughts. My approach has been to accept small steps in the right direction and encourage reasoned discussion. I also think that Linaro's main function is as a place where all the moving parts can collaborate.Right now, the GPU 'problem' is

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 22 December 2010 09:51, Matt Sealey wrote: > Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. > > In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* > Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it took > them a year to get to this point). It appears that this discus

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> You need to read before replying. > > If the interface is a generic interface that any software can use then > its fine, when the interface is a specific interface for a specific > closed userspace driver it becomes questionable. > > Again you are thinking general case when we are talking specifi

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
> you have two pieces of code, a userspace 3D *driver* (not > application), and a kernel driver talking to the hw, if the userspace > 3D driver cannot exist without the kernel driver, it could very well > be considered a derivative work of the kernel driver. You are not > protected by the standard

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-22 Thread Matt Sealey
Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it took them a year to get to this point). -- Matt Sealey Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc. On Tue, Dec 21, 2

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Sealey
Okay I hereby refrain from legal comments. In any case, this code has passed legal at Freescale and AMD *AND* Qualcomm. It would not be GPL if it has not been vetted (and it took them a year to get to this point). -- Matt Sealey Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc. On Tue, Dec 21, 2

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2010-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 18:29:56 Matt Sealey wrote: > > The only thing that is currently being enforced is that no interfaces enter > > the mainline kernel that rely on closed source user space. Once something > > is merged in mainline, you are generally free to write code under any > > licens

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
You need to read before replying. If the interface is a generic interface that any software can use then its fine, when the interface is a specific interface for a specific closed userspace driver it becomes questionable. Again you are thinking general case when we are talking specifics. thank

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> you have two pieces of code, a userspace 3D *driver* (not >> application), and a kernel driver talking to the hw, if the userspace >> 3D driver cannot exist without the kernel driver, it could very well >> be considered a deriva

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
you have two pieces of code, a userspace 3D *driver* (not application), and a kernel driver talking to the hw, if the userspace 3D driver cannot exist without the kernel driver, it could very well be considered a derivative work of the kernel driver. You are not protected by the standard Linux sys

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:17:40 Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:17:40 Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a > >> single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one cannot exist > >> without the other, and there are interfaces

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Sealey
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:17:40 Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a >> >> single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one c

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 18:29:56 Matt Sealey wrote: > > The only thing that is currently being enforced is that no interfaces enter > > the mainline kernel that rely on closed source user space. Once something > > is merged in mainline, you are generally free to write code under any > > licens

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Matt Sealey
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:17:40 Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a >> >> single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one c

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Dave Airlie
> > The concerns about host memory access via the GPU driver are valid but > unnecessary. The GPU MMU directly intervenes on memory access and can > only modify memory space allocated to the GPU resource - getting data > into this memory requires some extreme manual intervention if not done > by th

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 03:17:40 Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a > >> single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one cannot exist > >> without the other, and there are interfaces

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-21 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: >> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a >> single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one cannot exist >> without the other, and there are interfaces that join them. > > As a copyright holder on the kernel I'll also remind the pe

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2010-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 20 December 2010 19:07:30 Jerome Glisse wrote: > > I also do not think that it is at all kernel policy to disallow kernel > > drivers which do not have opensource userspace components. In fact, > > Linus Torvalds begs to differ on this matter. The fact of the matter > > is that the driver

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> I also do not think that it is at all kernel policy to disallow kernel > drivers which do not have opensource userspace components. In fact, Wrong. The PVR graphics (as used by some Intel embedded for example) is also not in the kernel for the same reason, ditto some sensor and GPS devices which

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a > single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one cannot exist > without the other, and there are interfaces that join them. As a copyright holder on the kernel I'll also remind the people concerned that the definition of a deri

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Alan Cox wrote: My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one cannot exist without the other, and there are interfaces that join them. As a copyright holder on the kernel I'll also remind the people conc

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13

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2010-12-20 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> linaro.org>wrote: >>> >>> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > >>

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> I also do not think that it is at all kernel policy to disallow kernel > drivers which do not have opensource userspace components. In fact, Wrong. The PVR graphics (as used by some Intel embedded for example) is also not in the kernel for the same reason, ditto some sensor and GPS devices which

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Alan Cox
> My point which people keep missing is that graphics stacks are a > single entity, that span kernel and userspace, one cannot exist > without the other, and there are interfaces that join them. As a copyright holder on the kernel I'll also remind the people concerned that the definition of a deri

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Dave Airlie
> > The concerns about host memory access via the GPU driver are valid but > unnecessary. The GPU MMU directly intervenes on memory access and can > only modify memory space allocated to the GPU resource - getting data > into this memory requires some extreme manual intervention if not done > by th

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >>> linaro.org>wrote:

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 20 December 2010 19:07:30 Jerome Glisse wrote: > > I also do not think that it is at all kernel policy to disallow kernel > > drivers which do not have opensource userspace components. In fact, > > Linus Torvalds begs to differ on this matter. The fact of the matter > > is that the driver

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij > linaro.org>wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is no

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Matt Sealey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >>> wrote: >>> >>> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > >>> > * amd

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-20 Thread Matt Sealey
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally th

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij > linaro.org>wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is no

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 14 December 2010, Eric Miao wrote: > >> > >> Until there is a solution with an open source user space part, I would > >> suggest that the driver better be dropped from the Freescale BSP and > >> we should at least not waste time reviewing it. > > > > I think it is beneficial for us to in

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Eric Miao
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> > wrote: >> > >> > > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > > >

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Jammy Zhou
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote:

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2010-12-14 Thread Jammy Zhou
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij < > linus.walleij at linaro.org>wrote: > >> > >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd

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2010-12-14 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia wtorek, 14 grudnia 2010 o 03:35:20 Eric Miao napisa?(a): > > I think it is beneficial for us to integrate the kernel part into our > > Linaro tree, so that we can build/use it together with the kernel image. > > As for the user space libraries, how about adding them into the hwpack? > > (Is th

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Jammy Zhou
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >wrote: > > > > > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normal

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
Dnia wtorek, 14 grudnia 2010 o 03:35:20 Eric Miao napisał(a): > > I think it is beneficial for us to integrate the kernel part into our > > Linaro tree, so that we can build/use it together with the kernel image. > > As for the user space libraries, how about adding them into the hwpack? > > (Is th

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 14 December 2010, Eric Miao wrote: > >> > >> Until there is a solution with an open source user space part, I would > >> suggest that the driver better be dropped from the Freescale BSP and > >> we should at least not waste time reviewing it. > > > > I think it is beneficial for us to in

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally th

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Eric Miao
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> > wrote: >> > >> > > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > > >

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jammy Zhou
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote:

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jammy Zhou
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij < > linus.wall...@linaro.org>wrote: > >> > >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Be

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jammy Zhou
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >wrote: > > > > > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normal

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> >> wrote: >> >>

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jammy Zhou wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> >> wrote: >> >>

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij linaro.org>wrote: > > > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally the > >> case with GPU drivers, we can expe

Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij > linaro.org>wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is n

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij >> wrote: >> >> > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally t

Re: Freescale Linux BSP review

2010-12-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 13 December 2010, Jammy Zhou wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Linus Walleij > wrote: > > > On 11 December 2010 22:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > * amd-gpu -- a single but huge driver for the GPU. As is normally the > >> case with GPU drivers, we can expect long d