[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] sunxi-mali-mainline-driver: bump version and add support for building on arm64(aarch64).

Giulio Benetti giulio.benetti at micronovasrl.com
Sun Aug 26 21:36:49 UTC 2018


Hello Maxime,

Il 22/08/2018 21:26, Thomas Petazzoni ha scritto:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:37:13 +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> 
>> Also, it would be good to have patches
>>> adding license information for both of those packages. For the
>>> mali-blobs, there's a PDF containing the EULA.
>>
>> Do you mean like odroid-mali package .mk?
>> I mean reporting:
>> SUNXI_MALI_MAINLINE_LICENSE = EULA
>> SUNXI_MALI_MAINLINE_LICENSE_FILES = EULA for Mali 400MP _AW.pdf
>> Right?
> 
> Yes. Make sure "make legal-info" is working after this.
> 
>> For the kernel driver, I
>>> didn't see a license file, but I didn't look everywhere. If there is
>>> none, could you check with Maxime to make sure a license file gets
>>> added ?
>>
>> I'm not an expert of licensing but as stated here:
>> https://developer.arm.com/products/software/mali-drivers/utgard-kernel
>> it is distributed under GPLv2 licence the base code,
>> so the added code should be too.
>> What do you all think?
> 
> Yes, of course, it should be under GPLv2, but it would be nice to have
> a license file in the source code.

Is there a way to add a license into sunxi-mali repository?
Is it enough using a classic GPLv2 COPYING file taken from elsewhere and 
put it in sunxi-mali root folder?
If yes I can contribute to your repo and open a PR.

Thanks

Giulio Benetti



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