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

[Stefan Reinauer]

It's been a while, but this is checked in now :-) r3877

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
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> >
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