[illumos-Developer] ACPICA update

[Jerry Jelinek]

Thanks for the details on this.  I'll take a look at this stuff
as I'm digging into this.

Thanks again,
Jerry

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Thanks for offering to take this, I can offer some assistance.
>
> Our primary concern is that we do have some changes which were applied
> under the export-restricted licence header that is currently in our
> ACPICA sources. I was investigating this earlier and it doesn't appear
> to be very major. We may need Intel's permission to run the "acpisrc"
> tool to fix up the licence headers.
>
> See also: https://www.illumos.org/issues/311
>
> To ease future updates (especially with the licence issue), we almost
> certainly want to create a fork of the upstream repository at
> http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/acpica/
>
> -Albert
>