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Re: VirtualBox drm/kms driver



On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 07:41:07 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:

> > Valery Ushakov writes:
> > > maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  * Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Oracle Corporation
> > > >  *
> > > >  * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), ...
> > > 
> > > And your point is?
> > 
> > i think you skipped the next 3 relevant lines:
> > 
> >  * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
> >  * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
> >  * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
> > 
> > ie, we can't use this in the kernel.
> 
> Can't statically link it into the kernel, but my understanding is that
> it is still kosher as a dynamically loaded kernel module.

Exactly.

-uwe


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