[coreboot] [patch] ACPI support on M57SLI

[ron minnich]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Harald Gutmann <harald.gutmann at gmx.net> wrote:

> like said before, i don't know if this is a licensing problem or not. and also
> like stated before, this patch is not suggested for commiting.

Understand. Yes, we certainly don't want to put a copy of factory ACPI
in our SVN UNLESS: someone wants to contact the manufacturer and gets
permission.

If they do get permission, I suggest that a copy of the email granting
permission be dropped in the mainboard directory. I have had
experience with the following:
1. Vendor: please do this port.
2. We do the port.
(years pass)
(people move around)
3. Vendor: WHY IS OUR MAINBOARD IN YOUR SOURCE TREE? PLEASE REMOVE!
   (we didn't :-)

So you have to be careful once you get the ok ... either get ACPI with
a GPL-from-vendor note in it or leave a nice audit trail, preferably
with a copy of the email in comments.

AMD, as always, is one example of how to get this done correctly.

ron