GPL components of InstantON for Uniwill M31EI1

[Mathias Hasselmann]

Am Freitag, den 09.06.2006, 11:02 +0800 schrieb Alex Wu(Tung-Peng):

Hi Alex,

> I am sorry for our late reply. I just got this mail from our
> marketing person. The following are our answer to your questions.

Thank your for your reply - actually this one came quite quickly: Just
one day after contacting your companies marketing unit. I was quite
surprised to see such a positive answer that quickly.

> (1) Open source package: As you mentioned, it is our duty to release the
> source code to public. Usually we will provide the package to OEM(like
> Uniwill in this case) so that they can choose how to release the source
> code. If they didn't put it in the CD, we should put it on our website.
> Since Uniwill didn't ship it with the package, we will put all of the
> source code in our website as soon as possible. However, this will take
> around 2 weeks to request our web team to do it. We are willing to
> provide an ftp site for you to download the source code before the web
> page is ready. Please let us know if you need it before the download
> link is ready via ftp. 

The CD-ROM is some blue disc contains exactly two files:

    -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 74934910 16. Mar 09:49 InstantON.exe
    -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root   994683 22. Mar 14:07 User Manual.pdf

No information regarding the GPL, no information whom to contact for
getting the source code.

Getting access on the entire kernel source code soon would allow me to
research quickly if you found some solution for that minor ACPI problem
of the notebook - but I really do not feel like disturbing your daily
business too much. So if you say the full source code will be available
within two weeks I am fine.

> (2) Audio driver : Since Realtek is close to our office, we asked their
> engineer to help us to fix the issue. They told us that they will submit
> those changes to ALSA driver officially. That's why we have a modified
> driver which can work correctly. The driver is small (around 2.5MB), I
> can mail it to you or put it on ftp so that you can get it very soon.
> Please let me know which way you prefer.

Assumed something like that. The current driver talks about probing some
unknown variant of the ALC861 when loading, so it looks like the changes
have not found there way into the offical repository yet. Guess adopting
the changes between ALSA 1.0.9 and the now recent ALSA 1.0.11 would take
some time, so your partner at Realtek delayed that. I can understand
this, as I also do not like merging conflicting branches. 

Guess sending the driver per mail should be more comfortable for you, so
it's ok, if you send it that way.

> (3) Great thanks to your reminder so that we can correct the mistake.
> Please let us know if anything we could help.

I have to thank you for responding quickly, once I've found a working
communication channel. I'll have a look at the audio driver as soon as
possible. Thank you for our offer to help. With some luck the driver
will work out of the box.

Ciao,
Mathias
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Mathias Hasselmann <mathias.hasselmann at gmx.de>
http://taschenorakel.de/