[coreboot] [PATCH] Add K8T800, K8T800Pro*, and K8M800* support

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Wed Mar 2 01:08:08 CET 2011


* Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> [110302 01:05]:
> Auf 02.03.2011 00:40, Joseph Smith schrieb:
> > On 03/01/2011 04:14 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> >> * Peter Stuge<peter at stuge.se>  [110216 14:43]:
> >>> Alex G. wrote:
> >>>> Extended K8T890 driver to include the K8T800 and K8M800 northbridges.
> >>>> The K8T800 is almost identical to the K8T800Pro, also added to this
> >>>> patch. The K8T800_OLD is also defined, which is an older  version of
> >>>> the K8T800, but which has no driver and early HT code yet.
> >>>> Also extended the K8M890 VGA driver to work for the K8M800 (not
> >>>> tested).
> >>>> According to the datasheet, the K8T890 and K8T800 are similar enough
> >>>> to be able to use the same initialization code. At least for the
> >>>> K8T800, this is sufficient to have a working HT link with the CPU, and
> >>>> to initialise the V-Link to the southbridge.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by Alexandru Gagniuc<mr.nuke.me at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Acked-by: Peter Stuge<peter at stuge.se>
> >>>
> >>> r6367
> >>
> >> Sorry, we have to back this out again since the license of some of the
> >> files are not compatible with the coreboot license.
> >> Unfortunately at this point we can not allow GPLv3 code in the
> >> repository, as the resulting image will be GPLv2.
> >>
> >> Can you please back this out, Peter? (Or Alexandru, send a license
> >> update if licensing your files under GPLv2 is ok for you)
> >>
> > Wow! That is a big no, no.
> 
> Only src/southbridge/via/k8t890/k8x8xx.h is affected. Since it is
> essentially just a wrapper of another header file, can we just kill the
> indirection and the problem is solved?

Sure. Patches welcome.





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