Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen

[Huang, FrankR]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Airlie [mailto:airlied at redhat.com]
> Sent: 2011年10月13日 22:24
> To: Huang, FrankR
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; Xavier Bestel; Dave Airlie
> Subject: Re: Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "FrankR Huang" <FrankR.Huang at amd.com>
> > To: "Xavier Bestel" <xavier.bestel at free.fr>, "Dave Airlie"
> <airlied at gmail.com>
> > Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Sent: Thursday, 13 October, 2011 3:16:07 PM
> > Subject: Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen
> >
> >
> > Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen
> >
> > Xav, thanks for your reminder. Actually our law leam has already
> > checked the license. As Dave said, the DRM kernel driver is all
> > MIT-licensed and we will be free to use them. When the drm uses
> > linux kernel function calls, we will use freebsd(none-GPL)
> > equivalent to replace.
> > Dave, by the way, I want to ask you about some exceptions in DRM. you
> > know in some files(i.e. drm_fb_helper.c), it includes
> > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights"). Does it mean it is GPL
> > licensed? Is it free to use this file?
> 
> Those files are derived from the kernel fb layer so are not drm core
> infrastructure.
> 
> They make no sense on other OSes, since they don't have the same kernel fb
> layer.
Yup. CE does have fb layer, when I did the modeset part, there is no fb layer in it and none of fb functions will be used in our driver. So I understand that you said those files are derived from the kernel fb layer. So what's the relastionship between drm fb helper and real kernel fb ?


> 
> Dave.