VGA Arbiter

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 11:31 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 16:20 -0200, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we could push our repo to fd.o. What do you think guys? But I 
> > don't know exactly how the copyright and license stuffs will work 
> > though. All the fd.o repositories must be in MIT?
> 
> You're welcome to stick your code at fd.o, of course. However, I think
> you'll want to have this in the kernel tree when it works. I'm not sure
> how people generally deal with small kernel projects, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if they used a complete kernel tree.
> 
> fd.o can host code using any OSI-approved license; the only restrictions
> are driven by what projects you'll be working with. We've got several
> GPL projects already, including an X driver (avivo).

I will have to reside in the main kernel tree soon enough as bits of
kernel will have to be patched to be adapted to it, such vgacon, the DRM
will probably too soon enough, etc...

Maybe worth posting it to lkml for review once we have a working enough
setup of X using it.

Ben.