Hi Zhangfx. What we want is to finally get the endorsement of FSF to gNewSense-MIPS on the Yeelong. They have informed this will be done, but is needed to get the SMI working good (better than now)
The GPL issue, as far as I have search and read, is solved. So there is no Non-Compatible GPL Software or Licenses on this. This is very good, by the way ! The person in charge to manage the FSF endorsement is Brett Smith <br...@fsf.org> (I am sending a CC to him, I do not know if he is suscribed tho this list) and is asking for this new version you told about, because old one appears to have problems in rebooting and poor behaviour: He says (and I agree) "graphics performance is unacceptable for common netbook tasks". I am pretty shure this new version may be the solution if we put our efforts together, making Yeelong not only the better hardware we have to live in freedom: we will make the better Software posible to make it shine! So, Zhangfx, how you think we can get (and how we can help to get) this driver working properly, as good as the FSF ask, to make possible this endorsement? zhangfx escribió: > What do you need exactly? A GPLed silicon motion driver? An accelerated > smi driver? > > For GPL issue, I think SMI/lemote has given the permission. For > acceleration, we have old working version. Recently we will also look at > porting to new version. > > Regards > > Octavio Rossell wrote: >> Excuse my english, ussualy contain errors, I think, however, it will be >> enough to express myself: >> >> Let me introduce first: I am working in a project in Venezuela, which >> have the goal of manufacturing, developing and mantaining the Lemote >> Yeelong in our continent. For this we have contacted FSF asking the >> complete endorsenment of gNewSense in this hardware. They answered the >> main issue to solve before, is one concerning the SiliconMotion driver >> (video). So I started to search for experts here in Venezuela to >> research and solve this. >> >> Maybe we need to recompile the Silicon Motion Driver to the gNewSense >> Lemote Yeelong. There is an existing effort in this [1] but the page is >> in a very difficult language and the package appears to crash or to not >> work properly in some reeboot situation. >> >> Any help, advice or information will be helpful. >> >> Thanks. I hope you can help us constructing a free world :-) >> >> [1] http://dev.lemote.com/drupal/node/49 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gNewSense-dev mailing list >> gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev >> -- __________________________________________________________ | , , | | / \ | | ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) Octavio Rossell Tabet | | `-_---' `---_-' octa...@gnu.org.ve | | `--|o` 'o|--' http://octavio.gnu.org.ve | | \ ` / irc.gnu.org.ve #gnu | | .: :. Usuario de GNU/Linux: 278860 | | :o_o: Huella: FC69 551B ECB9 62B0 D992 | | "-" BE57 B551 2497 C78B 870A | |__________________________________________________________|
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