According to Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >> I implemented the mmx fastmemcpy function from the linux kernel
> >> sources. I haven't implemented the fastclear function yet because
> >> the kernel only has a page clear. If I have the time I will rewrite
> >> this so it can clear any memory range.
> >
> >Does this create license problems, since the kernel is GPL but plex86 is LGPL?
>
> I don't know if LGPL and GPL are incompatible. Does anybody know this ?
IANAL, but GPL doesn't allow linking against non-GPL code, while LGPL does.
> If not I can write the code again based on the memcpy functions which
> are freely available (and free to use any program) from AMD.
Or even better, use the memcpy code from *BSD, since they're BSD ("grab the
code and run, just don't claim you wrote it") licensed. That code is
provenly portable.
Wouter
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