Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][Open GFW]Support ACPI SPCR table

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 18:03 +0900, SUZUKI Kazuhiro wrote:
> Hi Tristan,
> 
> The following patch supports ACPI Serial Port Console
> Redirection(SPCR) table, by which we can use Windows Special
> Administration Console(SAC).

   I am not a lawyer, but the SPCR table has quite a license behind
it[1].  This is part of the reason why Linux doesn't use it.  I would be
a little nervous about adding this to the code base.  Thanks,

        Alex

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/spcr.mspx

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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