Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:21:38 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: pfg@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, joel@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r229430 - in head/sys: conf dev/sound/pci modules/sound/driver/emu10k1 Message-ID: <CAGH67wRSXoQuz2c3bNZcpU8s%2BPp05u1iJkPgHCMdFGpUefqPMw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1325629000.43247.YahooMailClassic@web113515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <201201031615.06873.jhb@freebsd.org> <1325629000.43247.YahooMailClassic@web113515.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi; > > --- Mar 3/1/12, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> ha scritto: > ... >> On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:04:54 >> pm Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >> > Author: pfg >> > Date: Tue Jan=A0 3 21:04:54 2012 >> > New Revision: 229430 >> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229430 >> > >> > Log: >> >=A0=A0=A0Replace a GPL'd header in the emu10k1 >> snd driver code. >> > >> >=A0=A0=A0This brings in the emuxkireg.h from >> NetBSD (dev/pci) which >> >=A0=A0=A0is used for the same purpose but is >> smaller. The emu10k1 >> >=A0=A0=A0is now free from the GPL. >> >> Is this a common-enough chipset to enable in GENERIC now >> that it is safe to do so? >> > > It's probably very common in PC emulators so it will be > important to MFC into stable. > > FWIW, two other cards (maestro3 and csaimg) are based on > headers from OSS that are now under a BSD license. > > The maestro3 is done (kern/153920) and is next in my > list but it's getting difficult to find testers for > this old stuff. Can the same be done for emu10kx ? Someday it would be nice to have xfi support in the tree, but that's a missing driver that even the OSS maintainer was scared to touch because of the complexity of the code. Thanks! -Garrett
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