Subject: Re: NVidia drivers: preliminary LKM version
To: None <felix@students.poly.edu>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/22/2003 20:33:20
felix zaslavskiy wrote:
> nvidia just released a patch to linux kernel to enabel 
> agpart support for nnforce chipset.  They released it under the gpl.  As
> far as licensing is concerned is it possible to port it ?

How big is the patch? If it's couple register writes, it's fine
to learn which particular registers to poke from the GPL code, and
write a BSD-licenced code based on the knowledge.

Jaromir
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