On 09/22/2012 03:58 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear judge.pack...@gmail.com, > > In message <1348216335-18105-1-git-send-email-judge.pack...@gmail.com> you > wrote: >> From: Chris Packham <judge.pack...@gmail.com> >> >> Instead of storing the mircocode in a separate flash block simply embed >> the image as C code array of bytes. > > What exactly is the licensing of this code?
Good point. I got the firmware out of the SDK that came with our P2041RDB. I believe the intent was that the Fman microcode is written to a reserved flash block and downloaded to the frame manager by the OS when needed. As a Freescale customer I would actually prefer to have the source released under the GPL and build everything into the u-boot image. > Would it not have to be GPL compatible to "link" it in such a way, > which in turn would require the source code and the tools to build > it ? Well I took one law paper at university and quickly decided to major in computer science instead so I am entirely unqualified to comment :). That being said it probably depends on the definition of "link". No code is actually being called directly from u-boot, it's just a convenient transportation mechanism. Still there are statements in the GPL about what constitutes distributing the code, someone more qualified can tackle that. I can understand why for u-boot this might be a gray area. Writing firmware blobs to a flash block somewhere is a solution that avoids any problems and makes my patch unsuitable/unnecessary. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot