On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Harald Gutmann harald.gutmann@gmx.net wrote:
like said before, i don't know if this is a licensing problem or not. and also like stated before, this patch is not suggested for commiting.
Understand. Yes, we certainly don't want to put a copy of factory ACPI in our SVN UNLESS: someone wants to contact the manufacturer and gets permission.
If they do get permission, I suggest that a copy of the email granting permission be dropped in the mainboard directory. I have had experience with the following: 1. Vendor: please do this port. 2. We do the port. (years pass) (people move around) 3. Vendor: WHY IS OUR MAINBOARD IN YOUR SOURCE TREE? PLEASE REMOVE! (we didn't :-)
So you have to be careful once you get the ok ... either get ACPI with a GPL-from-vendor note in it or leave a nice audit trail, preferably with a copy of the email in comments.
AMD, as always, is one example of how to get this done correctly.
ron