Re: [coreboot] [LinuxBIOS] Add initial support for intel i855gme northbridge

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 20.01.2009 21:47, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> It's been a while, but this is checked in now :-) r3877

And just for the record, this is being used in a casino gaming machine.
Just in case the announcement is intended to contain some info about usage.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
> Jon Dufresne wrote:
> > Ok, the reason I did not add my name initially was because I felt
> > since they were based on the i855pm that I didn't hold the right to
> > copyright the whole file. But if you think it is ok then sure. Also I
> > didn't know who the original authors were so I wasn't able to add them
> > to the header.
> >
> > Thanks for the fix.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On 12/19/06, Uwe Hermann  wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > thanks for the patch(es).
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:19:48PM -0500, Jon Dufresne wrote:
> > > > Add initial support for i855gme. This is a work in progress and I
> > > > don't expect it to work on all boards, or even any besides mine. This
> > > > is based heavily on i855pm.
> > > >
> > > > Signed off by Jon Dufresne
> > >
> > > Use a literal
> > > Signed-off-by: Jon Dufresne 
> > > please.
> > >
> > > Attached is an updated patch which has a complete and correct (AFAICT)
> > > license header. Your license headers were missing author(s) and date.
> > >
> > > The trivial files and those you wrote from scratch are now
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > >
> > > and some of them are (also) copyrighted by others.
> > >
> > > I reconstructed some licensing info from the svn logs. Please let me
> > > know if my conclusions are not correct.
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/Config.lb
> > >
> > > Trivial.
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/reset_test.c
> > >
> > > Trivial.
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/raminit.c
> > >
> > > Written from scratch.
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/debug.c
> > >
> > > Judging from
> > > http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/log/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainbo...
> > > which seems to be the first occurence of any debug.c in the code, this
> > > was written by Ron in 2003, so:
> > > Copyright (C) 2003 Ronald G. Minnich
> > >
> > > Is this correct? The commit comment says "via epia; also yh lu tyan.".
> > > Does that mean YH is the author?
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/northbridge.c
> > >
> > > Judging from
> > > http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/log/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/northb...
> > > which seems to be the first occurence of a northbridge.c which this one
> > > is based on, this was written by Ron in 2003 and modified by Eric in
> > > 2003,2004, so:
> > > Copyright (C) 2003 Ronald G. Minnich
> > > Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Eric W. Biederman
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/chip.h
> > >
> > > Trivial.
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/i855gme.h
> > >
> > > Currently empty. If you add code here, please add a license header.
> > > > Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/raminit.h
> > >
> > > Trivial.
> > > Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne
> > > HTH, Uwe.
> > >
> > > http://www.hermann-uwe.de  | http://www.holsham-traders.de
> > > http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
> > >
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