> -----Original Message----- > From: David Airlie [mailto:airlied@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 2011年10月13日 22:24 > To: Huang, FrankR > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Xavier Bestel; Dave Airlie > Subject: Re: Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "FrankR Huang" <FrankR.Huang@xxxxxxx> > > To: "Xavier Bestel" <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx>, "Dave Airlie" > <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Thursday, 13 October, 2011 3:16:07 PM > > Subject: Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen > > > > > > Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen > > > > Xav, thanks for your reminder. Actually our law leam has already > > checked the license. As Dave said, the DRM kernel driver is all > > MIT-licensed and we will be free to use them. When the drm uses > > linux kernel function calls, we will use freebsd(none-GPL) > > equivalent to replace. > > Dave, by the way, I want to ask you about some exceptions in DRM. you > > know in some files(i.e. drm_fb_helper.c), it includes > > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights"). Does it mean it is GPL > > licensed? Is it free to use this file? > > Those files are derived from the kernel fb layer so are not drm core > infrastructure. > > They make no sense on other OSes, since they don't have the same kernel fb > layer. Yup. CE does have fb layer, when I did the modeset part, there is no fb layer in it and none of fb functions will be used in our driver. So I understand that you said those files are derived from the kernel fb layer. So what's the relastionship between drm fb helper and real kernel fb ? > > Dave. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
