Jim,
It's great that AMD stated that they have agreed to allow use of their VSA code during a teleconference.
Can you ask David Wahl with AMD to release all the source to the VSA including XpressGRAPHICS and XpressAUDIO under GPL or similar license?
-Bari
Jim Gettys wrote:
On a teleconference on March 2, AMD said that we can have/use any of their code (e.g. VSA sources, as I understand it) that we need, and that that code could be incorporated into LinuxBIOS.
What is more, they said that they had ensured that they owned all the IP associated with this code since Geode's acquisition by AMD.
They also said that LinuxBIOS was now considered a peer of any commercial BIOS and they would support the development. I know from subsequent mail that AMD's expert on LinuxBIOS in the Opteron group has spent a day with the Geode team to try to get them up to speed.
I don't know if AMD has a BIOS of their own; heretofore people have used commercial BIOS's on Geode. (says me the non-BIOS guy who usually pushes packets and pixels around).
AMD, BTW, is one of the corporate sponsors of OLPC. And I meet with David Wahl of AMD later this week, who is in charge of the group in AMD who support BIOS developers. Regards, - Jim Gettys OLPC
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:02 -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
Jim,
What's the status of any legal agreements with AMD on using their BIOS or VSA source for the OLPC project?
-Bari
Jim Gettys wrote:
Is located here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/Hardware_specification
The board has started layout. - Regards, - Jim