Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> (vgacon's screenbuffer is video RAM while the rest of the console drivers
> have it in system RAM. But you can have vgacon and fbcon compiled at the
> same time, for example, and this basically screws up the screen accessors,
> especially in non-x86 archs.)
>
> So a revamp of vgacon may be necessary, by placing the screen buffer in
> system RAM. This will entail a lot of work, so the revamp will take some
> time.
Thanks for looking into this.
> > VIA has a separate driver, couldn't this be merged with mainline?
>
> Sure, as long as it's GPL-compatible, properly written, and correctly
> Signed-off.
Attached below is their license. Is it GPL-compatible?
Thanks!
--
Al
---
/*
* Copyright 1998-2006 VIA Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Copyright 2001-2006 S3 Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
* to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
* the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub license,
* and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
* Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
* next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions
* of the Software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
* THE AUTHOR(S) OR COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
* OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
* ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
* OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*/
(... and at the end of viafbdev.c it says this ...)
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,9)
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#endif
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