hi sarah > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 12:53:43PM +0800, loody wrote: >> hi sarah: >> >> 2012/10/6 Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > I see. Is there a particular reason why the current Linux xHCI driver >> > doesn't meet your needs? Like maybe your host isn't PCI based? I'm >> > confused as to why you would need to understand the low-level details of >> > ring management if you're doing a simple port. >> Yes, you are correct. >> My platform is not PCI based system and OS is not BSD/Linux as well. >> so I cannot do a simple port. > > I hope you know what you're doing licensing-wise then. The xHCI driver > is GPL v2, and that means any changes you make to it are going to have > to be released as well. And if you're attempting to read the xHCI > driver code to understand how you should write your own driver, then you > may run into license troubles there. IANAL, so you should ask a good > lawyer who knows open source licensing. Yes, I know we should following the spirit of GPL v2. thanks for your help, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
