[Xorg-driver-geode] New on the Geode lists, introduce myself

[Jordan Crouse]

On 17/06/08 08:28 +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> * Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > > I recently ported the xf86-video-geode driver over to OpenBSD and I plan
> > > to somewhat actively participate in the development, with two main
> > > focuses in my mind:
> > >
> > > 1) Make sure the driver works well on OpenBSD (and maybe other BSDs)
> > > 2) Try to make it as secure as possible
> > >
> > > Especially 2) is important, the current implementation scares me and my
> > > OpenBSD colleagues quite a bit ;)  (not strictly the driver, but how
> > > MSRs are handled in Linux).
> > 
> > Welcome to the list!
> > 
> > Did you come up with any diff to make the driver compile on OpenBSD?
> > If yes, we'll gladly take a look at them. Simply submit them to this
> > list as an attachment, with the usual Signed Off By line included,
> > along with any explanation you deem necessary to justify the changes.
> 
> Sure I will send my patches here.  What do you mean with "Signed
> Off By"?  I you are referring to any license issue, all my diffs
> are under the same license as the original code.  If you mean showing
> them to someone else, the diffs have so far passed the eyes of
> Matthieu Herrb, X.Org member of the board (and also OpenBSD developer).

We don't actually require a signed-off-by line here - just follow the
standard fd.o rules.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.