Openvfd driver

**knaerzche** · January 10, 2020 at 5:04 PM

Hi,

I have a LE-internals question:

What happend to the openvfd-linux driver in LE? I read about licensing issues - but there is this GitHub - LibreELEC/linux_openvfd: FD628 and similar compatible LED controller driver used in LibreELEC repo - but the package itself isn't exisiting anymore in packages/linux-drivers. Is there another driver which supports FD6XX?

**chewitt** · January 10, 2020 at 8:23 PM Official Post

I forked the driver at the last "GPLv2" commit before Arther bumped it to GPLv3 to avoid using a kernel driver that is not license compatible with the GPLv2 (only) kernel, but in reality this is irrelevant because the code he started from was not license marked. To change the license (or state one) he needs permission from the original author and since this person isn't known .. he doesn't have permission.

Andreas Faerber posted the following series to the LKML and I hope this provides an upstream, GPLv2, less hacky alternative:

Linux ARM Kernel Architecture - Patchwork

**knaerzche** · January 11, 2020 at 11:28 AM

OK, thanks for clarification.