Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:02:02 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) Message-ID: <19981226190202.57516@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> In-Reply-To: <199812231949.LAA03752@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:49:41AM -0800 References: <19981222011226.50577@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <199812231949.LAA03752@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 11:49:41AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 01:24:14PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> >
>> >Whistle has some basic support for the LM80 power-supply and environmental
>> >monitor chip. When I port it back to the IICbus generic code it may
>> >supply a basis to work on.
>>
>> Sure. We'll also have to consider Linux stuff.
>
>Or at least basic compatibility with it, yes.
Yes, rather basic compatibility, and trying to convince them to move there code
to user space and use /dev.
>
>> It may be a hard issue since they rely on there /proc and module
>> loadable mechanism. We should certainly use kld too.
>
>Indeed. So when will ppbus move to the new-bus model and become
>KLDable?
:) I was sure you would ask it soon. I was planning to get help from the
ISA port, especially for the interrupt handling.
>
>> Another problem is the license...
>
>I think our designs are sufficiently different that all we're going to
>get from their code are ideas, so the licenses aren't necessarily a
>real problem...
\begin{flame}
Ideas are not under the GPL? I thought the license was universal!?! :)
That's what the Linux associations try to convince us with, here in France.
\end{flame}
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