[Arm-netbook] Mali-400 driver status

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Tue Dec 27 01:19:15 GMT 2011


On 12/26/2011 07:12 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Vladimir Sedach<vsedach at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> We seem to have a misunderstanding. I think it's deeply unfortunate
>> the whole driver stack is not available under the GPL. I'm not
>> interested in using Linux, so having a pre-built Linux binary doesn't
>> help.
>   i understand.  i've actually raised this on ARM's forums, and they
> censored the discussion.  no, that is not a hoax.
>
>   can i suggest that you also raise the issue with ARM, by raising a
> discussion on their public forums, requesting the source code and
> documentation sufficient to program the GPU?  they cannot censor
> absolutely everybody, and the fact that you do not wish to use
> GNU/Linux or the Linux Kernel would be very significant.
>
>
How about sending an open letter to ARM asking them for the source code 
and documentation and also posting it on the wiki? Other open projects 
have done so that becomes public and can't be censored.

For example:
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2011/08/17/gsoc-2011-flashrom-part-5-%E2%80%93-dear-intel/

-Bari



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