I'm usually totally _against_ dropping any targets, but these seem totally non-working, and so incomplete that there's barely _any_ code which is specific to them. Almost all of the code is generic framework, copy+pasted code from other targets.
The only "real" content I can see right now is info from irq_tables.c.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this code has never worked at all, and doesn't contain anything useful which would warrant keeping it, correct?
(after dropping it, the code is still available in the svn history, so even _if_ we'd need any of it later -- which I doubt -- it'll be there)
Uwe.
* Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de [070521 15:52]:
I'm usually totally _against_ dropping any targets, but these seem totally non-working, and so incomplete that there's barely _any_ code which is specific to them. Almost all of the code is generic framework, copy+pasted code from other targets.
The only "real" content I can see right now is info from irq_tables.c.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this code has never worked at all, and doesn't contain anything useful which would warrant keeping it, correct?
(after dropping it, the code is still available in the svn history, so even _if_ we'd need any of it later -- which I doubt -- it'll be there)
It will be faster to go from scratch.
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:55:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
It will be faster to go from scratch.
Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de
r2685.
Uwe.
I'm glad you dropped them. On the Densitron, it was a matter of a vendor initially agreeing to tell the vendor how to start up memory, and then changing their mind.
A shame, too, but transmeta was always pretty hard to deal with. There was a company that very clearly violated the GPL by shipping a transmeta-based machine running linuxbios, and never releasing source to their customers. They kept telling me transmeta would not let them release the code. I never found out the truth, i.e. who would not allow what to be released. That company is out of business, their code is lost forever. A sad story.
thanks
ron
On 22.05.2007 02:52, ron minnich wrote:
A shame, too, but transmeta was always pretty hard to deal with. There was a company that very clearly violated the GPL by shipping a transmeta-based machine running linuxbios, and never releasing source to their customers. They kept telling me transmeta would not let them release the code. I never found out the truth, i.e. who would not allow what to be released. That company is out of business, their code is lost forever. A sad story.
If that happens again, we might just sue the offender. http://www.gpl-violations.org has achieved great success with that method. Even if we don't manage to get the offender to release the code, we can stop sales of the product which will hurt them enough to rethink their strategy. Plus, vendors will not think stealing code is OK.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [070523 12:28]:
If that happens again, we might just sue the offender.
Not if the offender ceased to exist, unfortunately.
On 5/23/07, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
If that happens again, we might just sue the offender. http://www.gpl-violations.org has achieved great success with that method.
I have not had that much luck on 2 cases -- one was not linuxbios. But I can always try again.
ron
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