[PATCH] drm/fourcc: Document open source user waiver

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Nov 24 09:44:01 UTC 2022


On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 19:24, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> It's a bit a FAQ, and we really can't claim to be the authoritative
> source for allocating these numbers used in many standard extensions
> if we tell closed source or vendor stacks in general to go away.
>
> Iirc this was already clarified in some vulkan discussions, but I
> can't find that anywhere anymore. At least not in a public link.

I seem to recall the policy being set in an IRC discussion at some
point (or perhaps during the AFBC merge?). This is a good
clarification of what we already do in practice.

Acked-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>


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