Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 13:28:45 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: mike@karels.net, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RPI4 Install r357606 test 09.02.2020 failed Message-ID: <13e2e74cc81de545e6951c083470425bf0c66658.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <202002092026.019KQXLF021366@mail.karels.net> References: <202002092026.019KQXLF021366@mail.karels.net>
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On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 14:26 -0600, Mike Karels wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 1:10 PM <ag@x86.ch> wrote: > > > ok I understand not all opensource as always claimed Too bad > > > > > The Raspberry Pi isn't really a totally open design. > > Warner > > Indeed. In this case, the GPL Linux driver is available as a > substitute > for documentation, but it isn't the clearest description of the (5 > versions) > of the Ethernet section. > Using linux code as "documentation" to create non-GPL code is a legal minefield. It's one of the reasons I work hard to never look at linux code at all, so there's no question that the bsd-licensed code I wrote has no roots in gpl'd code. -- Ian > Mike > > > > Zitat von Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>: > > > > > > > On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 20:49:53 +0100 > > > > ag@x86.ch wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > hello mike thanks for the information. why is this > > > > > documentation > > > > > not available? is there a conflict between linux and > > > > > freebsd? > > > > > > > > The Linux port is usually done by the SOC maker, or someone who > > > > signed an NDA with them to get the documentation, and released > > > > only as a > > > > compiled kernel. In many ways it is reminiscent of the bad old > > > > days of > > > > video acceleration. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-armTo > > > > unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > > freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > > freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "
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