Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 11:45:04 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWE32/64 support? Message-ID: <19970810114504.39681@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <19970810113200.09723@ct.picker.com>; from Randall Hopper on Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 11:32:00AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808174412.4871E-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <199708092031.NAA07209@rah.star-gate.com> <19970810113200.09723@ct.picker.com>
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Randall Hopper scribbled this message on Aug 10: > Side note: I'd like to pull in a more recent AWE driver version into > the tree for everyone, but my understanding is that since its GPLed, this > prevents inclusion in our kernel source tree. If we made the sound driver > an LKM, and if the driver author would agree to change to LGPL, I think > that would let us. But as far as I know, right now we can't so folks have > to update themselves. there already is a src/sys/gnu for copylefted source... it includes the GPL Floating point emulator and the digiboard driver... so it should be able to be imported into the source tree... will this driver conflict with any non-GPL version of a similar driver in the source tree? this is about the only problem I can see with it... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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