[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 <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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