Re: [Gnewsense-dev] OpenEC on OLPC XO 1.75

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 23:19:54 -0400
Daniel Clark <address@hidden> wrote:

> FYI no code yet, but promises that may help the effort to get OpenEC
> working on Lemote Yeeloong...

Interesting news.

> The exception is because EnE has not released the low-level details on
> the PS/2 interface in the KB3930, so there will be some code that is

Does anyone know what functionality is lost by this code being
proprietary? (if we removed it).
kk

> not available -- relative to the codebase this is a very small amount
> of code.  The GPL licensing exception will allow for linking against
> this closed code.  We're going to investigate ways to move away from
> this code in the future.  (As far as we're aware, this will make the
> XO-1.75 the first laptop with open embedded controller code!)
> 


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