Re: CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK crashes 2.6.17

[Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>]

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> (vgacon's screenbuffer is video RAM while the rest of the console drivers
> have it in system RAM. But you can have vgacon and fbcon compiled at the
> same time, for example, and this basically screws up the screen accessors,
> especially in non-x86 archs.)
>
> So a revamp of vgacon may be necessary, by placing the screen buffer in
> system RAM. This will entail a lot of work, so the revamp will take some
> time.

Thanks for looking into this.

> > VIA has a separate driver, couldn't this be merged with mainline?
>
> Sure, as long as it's GPL-compatible, properly written, and correctly
> Signed-off.

Attached below is their license.  Is it GPL-compatible?

Thanks!

--
Al

---
/*
 * Copyright 1998-2006 VIA Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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 *
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 * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
 * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
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 *
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 */

(... and at the end of viafbdev.c it says this ...)

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,9)
    MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#endif