[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 <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> 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 <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>>       
>> Use a literal
>> Signed-off-by: Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>> 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 <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>> 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 <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/reset_test.c
>>>       
>> Trivial.
>>  * Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/raminit.c
>>>       
>> Written from scratch.
>>  * Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/debug.c
>>>       
>> Judging from
>> http://tracker.linuxbios.org/trac/LinuxBIOS/log/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2/src/mainboard/via/epia/debug.c
>> 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 <rminnich at lanl.gov>
>>
>> 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/northbridge/via/vt8601/northbridge.c
>> 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 <rminnich at lanl.gov>
>>  * Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com>
>>  * Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Index: src/northbridge/intel/i855gme/chip.h
>>>       
>> Trivial.
>>  * Copyright (C) 2006 Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> 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 <jon.dufresne at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> HTH, Uwe.
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