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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>
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