On 14-02-28 10:49 AM, Tom Rini wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/28/2014 01:18 PM, Darwin Rambo wrote: >> Given the ARM header below, is this code possible to put into >> u-boot? >> >> For reference, I see this discussion below. >> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-November/110884.html >> >> If this is not acceptable, presumably due to the "All rights >> reserved" and "Redistribution in binary form..." clauses below, we >> could try to find an alternative implementation that is GPL2.0+ >> licensed or rewrite the parts we need from scratch. >> >> Any suggestions you have would be most welcome. Thanks. > > So, that particular discussion was about fastboot, and in that > particular case everything is OK, in the long run (I poked TI's > lawyers about that). We're just missing a clean design version being > ported and I know of a few groups / companies leaning on another > entity to do so. > > But with your particular quoted header, I think we cannot use it as it > puts restrictions on the binary redistribution as well.
Thanks Tom. If we were to create a small bit of arm-specific semihosting code without the licensing restrictions, and it were acceptable to the maintainers to upstream, would it best live in u-boot/arch/arm/lib/semihosting.c or in u-boot/lib/semihosting.c? I was thinking that arch/arm/lib might be the better place for it, especially since it can support both armv7 and armv8 platforms. The semihosting.h file might live in arch/arm/include/asm? BTW the proposal for this is to be able to use the ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF) to load the various ATF images, plus u-boot, which can then load the kernel/ramdisk/dtb from a standard arm board file using semihosting, and then launch the kernel without a bootwrapper. This gives us a more realistic boot sequence. Thanks! Regards, Darwin > > - -- > Tom > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTENovAAoJENk4IS6UOR1WuUYP/RukZAEnPLM4IEEIMpa9tAir > J7FUa+zIJKerQfNQ+rrW5/sWGG2Zj/1A8twjcs7W8KXrbbaQEr+jpQRPspS3pa5q > bmfeBDclNpuwqXtzeQvm6eNWVbkq0+4fJ25AI7fL1EuhpGFmcPfXoAW4DOFBJBUW > B11BHzHO1PuWl+7fm5PLBT/kMjB8rv8gx6rhyNxp0f3/aN+U4GkSNvVBXo8cBOWm > 4gO2dqWM299e3x2GYVKBbYwbAydBXXOjwpa3VoGljJPiz5iBT1DrMJV9R37kTRkj > D07PUlV2aMNdZv+dNxV1FOce/bhcT8iRWyzUSlecPrNWDWp7nFaIaGBpDHh8iRKA > thB7LlT1hQI88ksQH923CBaa2N1N/HgYtXYSiwRXx8bQexLIBieCvfUsHxqtWKRQ > r+bf3febP0MYiU5BCHKHHpY3zfERGRIVmgAs/7khtm038ORAIxWLX7myvQyubfBz > jRbwkZfpR1UXQ8g6zcbRah9mB12foVURF8a67v+9JC7p4/Jrrjb3ARgw8LwA61de > kiqjUr3qDfEcow9KTxZPVFi5gLJXTSdMPzgrs/2cCJ2jFnN/olGd//eGaIZUzf6P > 7L2oOEwv2i7p4FwwciTGhQWCfLO3YzU0MHnFJsHu+NaDdUxhpf/X/zwcAHvQqrc+ > L6bmYpnta9ViVwJHzOSS > =Si6y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
