Messages in this thread | | | From | Al Boldi <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK crashes 2.6.17 | Date | Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:25:39 +0300 |
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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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