Re: [coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread ron minnich
I think a rewrite from scratch is called for. If you make it BSD or MIT, then you can incorporate it into GPL and there are no issues, and you can incorporate it into GPL V2 and there are no issues, hence I would sort of hope you'd make it bsd. Or look at the virtio include files in linux, which

Re: [coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Chauhan, Himanshu wrote: > > > Chauhan, Himanshu wrote: > > > > In that case would it make sense to put it in FILO which is GPL? > > > > > > Yes, I think that's a very good idea. > > > > But to my understanding, it would convert FILO from GPLv

Re: [coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Chauhan, Himanshu wrote: > > Chauhan, Himanshu wrote: > > > In that case would it make sense to put it in FILO which is GPL? > > > > Yes, I think that's a very good idea. > > But to my understanding, it would convert FILO from GPLv2 to GPLv3. > Isn't it? Adding a source file with a particular lic

Re: [coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
On Monday, September 22, 2014, Peter Stuge wrote: > Paul Menzel wrote: > > `libpayload: Add Virtio layer and storage device support` > .. > > Some of the files are taken from SeaBIOS and are licensed under the GNU > > LGPLv3. Is that allowed/wanted to be in libpayload? > > I for one think it woul

Re: [coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Stuge
Paul Menzel wrote: > `libpayload: Add Virtio layer and storage device support` .. > Some of the files are taken from SeaBIOS and are licensed under the GNU > LGPLv3. Is that allowed/wanted to be in libpayload? I for one think it would be good to keep libpayload BSD-licensed. Chauhan, Himanshu wr

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo N20p Chromebook

2014-09-21 Thread John Lewis
On 21/09/14 14:06, Aaron Durbin wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:44 AM, John Lewis wrote: snip I'm trying to flash the ROM externally now, but it's telling me it can't disable block protection. It gets as far as trying to erase 0x60, then goes through all the erase functions, finally cr

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo N20p Chromebook

2014-09-21 Thread Aaron Durbin
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:44 AM, John Lewis wrote: > snip > > >> >> I'm trying to flash the ROM externally now, but it's telling me it >> can't >> disable block protection. It gets as far as trying to erase 0x60, >> then >> goes through all the erase functions, finally

Re: [coreboot] Lenovo N20p Chromebook

2014-09-21 Thread John Lewis
snip I'm trying to flash the ROM externally now, but it's telling me it can't disable block protection. It gets as far as trying to erase 0x60, then goes through all the erase functions, finally crapping out. Do you know how I can work-around that? The write protect screw is removed, rig

Re: [coreboot] X201i RAM upgrade not working

2014-09-21 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 21.09.2014 04:12, ron minnich wrote: > Here's the problem. There is caching of the DRAM configuration going > on. So, a restart is not stateless. > > I would be happier if you could guarantee that the mrc cache is > disabled, or never used, each time you change the dram setup (move > DIMMs, wha

Re: [coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread Chauhan, Himanshu
In that case would it make sense to put it in FILO which is GPL? On Sunday, September 21, 2014, Paul Menzel < paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear coreboot folks, > > > Himanshu Chauhan pushed the change set `libpayload: Add Virtio layer and > storage device support` for review [1]. I

[coreboot] libpayload and LGPL code

2014-09-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear coreboot folks, Himanshu Chauhan pushed the change set `libpayload: Add Virtio layer and storage device support` for review [1]. It’d be great if somebody with expertise in that area reviewed it. Some of the files are taken from SeaBIOS and are licensed under the GNU LGPLv3. Is that allowed