On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:37:27 -0400, Herb Radford herbr@magma.ca wrote:
We're looking at using a DoC on our next product and I was wondering how the drivers (obviously supplied by M-Systems) are merged into U-Boot code?
Please be cautious with merging drivers supplied my M-Systems into U-Boot code. I have not seen thrie drivers, but I am not 100% sure they are GPL. Including non-GPL code into U-Boot even locally can be the cause of leagal headaches down the road. You may have to see if you can reverse engineer the driver, or base the U-Boot driver off of the kernel driver instead of using the vendor supplied driver. I would be a bit cautious with this as there is no loadable module interface loophole in U-Boot to help you avoid the GPL. Sorry I couldn't be more help technically but I had a few spare cents here to use. Thanks Brian