re: Re HDMI transmitter interface

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> I had not checked the licence when I wrote the original email, it is
> GPL v2 and I agree that we wouldn't want it in tree.
> 
> Both bits were written by the same person (at TI), maybe ask if they
> would dual licence it.
> 
> The drm code is licenced under mixture of BSD and GPL. The core stuff
> and mass market GPU drivers are BSD, more recent SoC drivers look to
> be mostly GPL.
> 
> We might want a plan for how to do framebuffers and X11 across all the
> SoCs. Do we stick to using wsfb and xf86-video-wsfb or recommend that
> new ports use drmkms and either xf86-video-modeswitching or a more
> specific X11 driver ?
> 
> Maybe take this to tech-x11 ?

we should take this to the authors of this code and ask them for
the same dual-license the rest of the drm code has.

anyone want to carry the torch? :)


.mrg.