[Nouveau] [RFC] nouveau: Add basic i2c sensor chip support

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:59:37PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 18:43 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > This one works better, including some amount of support for the internal 
> > GPU sensor. It seems to give reasonable results on all the cards I have 
> > here.
> 
> So, I obviously have concerns/objections to allowing GPL code into drm.
> Especially, since this code doesn't do anything interesting or
> innovative that I can see.  It just reads registers via i2c... I mean
> how else would you do it?

It contains code cut and paste from nvclock (a GPLed codebase) and uses 
functions that are specific to the Linux kernel. I don't have the legal 
expertise to be able to claim it's not a derived work.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org